personal identity - 2024 ARCADIA

Question

A Theodore Sider paper argues that the “duplication problem” is an issue for both the “spatio-temporal continuity” and the “psychological continuity” views of this concept. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this concept. Thomas Reid criticizes a philosopher’s “memory theory” of this concept by using the example of a “brave officer” who at first remembers and then forgets his flogging as a schoolboy.

ANSWER: personal identity

[10e] Sider updates this philosopher’s memory theory of personal identity into the psychological continuity view. This philosopher wrote An Essay Concerning Human Understanding.

ANSWER: John Locke

[10h] Locke’s theory of psychological continuity was attacked by this English thinker who identified the self with the soul. This thinker had a lengthy correspondence with Gottfried Leibniz defending Newtonian physics.

ANSWER: Samuel Clarke

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Summary


2024 ARCADIA at BU	2024-12-06	Y	8	7.50	38%	25%	13%
2024 ARCADIA at Duke	2024-12-06	Y	2	10.00	50%	50%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T	2024-12-06	Y	2	15.00	50%	50%	50%
2024 ARCADIA Online	2025-05-17	Y	5	20.00	80%	80%	40%
2024 ARCADIA at Penn State	2024-12-06	Y	2	10.00	50%	50%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech	2024-12-06	Y	4	10.00	25%	75%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	2024-12-06	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo	2024-11-09	Y	6	15.00	83%	33%	33%
2024 ARCADIA at GT	2024-12-06	Y	5	6.00	40%	20%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois	2024-11-09	Y	4	15.00	50%	75%	25%
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick	2024-12-06	Y	5	4.00	20%	20%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Claremont	2024-11-02	Y	3	13.33	67%	33%	33%

Data


North Carolina A	North Carolina B	10	0	0	10
Virginia Tech B	Virginia Tech A	0	10	0	10
Squidward Community College	Truman	0	0	10	10
Squidward Community College	Truman	10	0	10	20
Squidward Community College	Truman	0	0	0	0
Squidward Community College	Truman	10	0	0	10
Squidward Community College	Truman	0	10	10	20
Squidward Community College	Truman	10	10	10	30
Squidward Community College	Truman	0	10	0	10
BU	Bowdoin C	0	0	0	0
Boston College A	Amherst	0	0	0	0
Boston College B	Clark Wilson	10	10	10	30
Bowdoin B	Bowdoin A	0	0	0	0
Clark House	Brandeis A	10	10	0	20
Harvard	Brandeis B	0	0	0	0
MIT	Tufts A	0	10	0	10
Yale	Tufts B	0	0	0	0
ASU->Stanford->ASU pipeline	The cult of SGA	0	10	0	10
In the Mood for Buzz	Old and Young	10	10	0	20
Toyota Tundra Turbos — Twisting Truths - Tackling Trivia - Taming Titans	Paddington in Peru (2024)	10	0	0	10
Social credit go vroom	she limp on my waltz till i feel pathetique	10	10	10	30
Madmen and Specialists	bingy academy	10	10	10	30
Pitt	Maryland	10	10	0	20
Penn State	RIT	0	0	0	0
UF A	Florida Tech	10	10	0	20
UCF B	UF B	10	0	0	10
UF C	USF	10	0	0	10
UCF A	Valencia	0	0	0	0
Georgia Tech A	Milton	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech B	Lambert	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech D	Innovation Academy B	0	0	0	0
Innovation Academy C	Johns Creek	0	0	0	0
Georgia Tech C	Mississippi State	0	0	0	0
ALCU	Anderson et al.	0	10	0	10
Claremont	Jason et al.	0	0	0	0
U[C]SD	SGV Ventures	10	10	10	30
Berkeley A	Berkeley Past	10	10	0	20
Berkeley B	Stanford	10	10	0	20
McGill A	McMaster ApocolocyntosisBidii	10	10	0	20
Toronto A	Toronto Disband the Club 2k24	0	10	10	20
Toronto Chestnut Rice and Kamehameha	Carleton A	0	10	0	10
Toronto Metropolitan A	Waterloo Cloze	0	0	0	0
Waterloo Aspidistra	Ottawa Absolomabsolomabsolom	10	10	10	30
Waterloo Basic	Toronto B	0	10	0	10
Chicago A	SIUE	10	10	0	20
Illinois Orange	Chicago B	10	10	10	30
Notre Dame	Purdue B	10	0	0	10
Illinois Blue	Purdue A	0	0	0	0
Cambridge B	Bristol	0	0	0	0
Imperial A	Warwick C	0	0	0	0
Imperial B	Warwick B	0	0	0	0
LSE A	LSE B	0	10	0	10
Warwick A	Southampton	10	0	0	10
Squidward Community College	Truman	10	10	0	20