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 | 60.00 | 200% | 200% | 200% |
| 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
| 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 |
| BU | Bowdoin C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Boston College A | Amherst | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |