"Personhood and Personal Identity" Self-Quiz

. What are the two main views theorists have developed in answering the question of personal identity?

The psychological continuity view and the self-conception view

The psychological continuity view and the bodily continuity view

The bodily continuity view and the self-conception view

The reidentification view and the self-conception view

. What is a reductionist account of personal identity?

An account that analyzes personal identity in terms that make no reference to that concept

An account that makes it very easy for one to understand that concept

An account that gives us insight into the concept of personal identity

An account that accounts for personal identity without referring to bodily continuity

. What problem is the notion of a "quasi-memory" supposed to solve?

Schechtman's dilemma

The problem of personal identity

The problem of distinguishing real and apparent memories

None of the above

. Edward Casey's memory of seeing Small Changes suggests what about memories?

That quasi-memories are possibly a good way for Parfit to respond to circularity worries

That we can't separate our relation to the experiences we remember from the content of those memories

That content matters less than one's relation to the experience one remembers when it comes to personal identity

None of the above

. Schechtman takes her circularity argument to apply to what sorts of mental states?

Memories

Intentions

Desires

All of the above

. Derek Parfit advocates a bodily continuity view of personal identity.

True

False

. Schechtman holds that quasi-memories solve the circularity problem the psychological-continuity view faces.

True

False

. Schechtman thinks that the only worthwhile philosophical account of personal identity is one that offers a non-circular reduction of the concept to more basic notions.

True

False

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