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2023-2 Metaphysics of the Self Segment 2 (I.Ravenscroft, "Empathy and Knowing What It's Like") Q) Do you believe that empathy can give us the knowledge of what it's like for someone to have a certain experience E? Explain your thinking.If we take the notion of qualia and the private self simultaneously, empathy cannot give us the knowledge of what it's like for someone to have a certain experien..

2023-2 Metaphysics of the Self Segment 2 ( A. Coplan, "Understanding Empathy") Q) According to Coplan, there are three essential features of empathy. What are these? Describe each one.According to Coplan, the three essential feature of empathy are:(1)   Affective matching: affective matching occurs only if an observer’s affective states are qualitatively identical to a target’s, though they may ..

2023-2 Metaphysics of the Self Segment 2 ( U. Neisser, "Five kinds of self knowledge") Q) Neisser argues that five distinct kind of self-knowledge give rise to five different selves. Which ones are these? List them and briefly describe them.According to Neisser, there are five different aspects of the self as follows:(1)   The ecological self: the self as perceived with respect to the physical e..

2023-2 Metaphysics of the Self Segment 2 (E. Olson, ch.1 and 6 of Human Animal) 9. According to Olson, what would happen to us if we were to find ourselves in a persistent vegetative state? And what would happen to us in the cerebrum transplant case? How would the proponent of the Psychological Approach respond to the two cases? A persistent vegetative state is a situation where my brain is dama..

2023-2 Metaphysics of the Self Segment 2 (D.Parfit, ch.10-12 of Reasons and Persons) Q) Which approach to personal identity does Parfit take? State the four main theses that he wants to argue for in his part III of Reasons and Persons.                                Derek Parfit is one of the most influential defenders of the psychological approach to personal identity. He suggests four main the..

2023-2 Metaphysics of the Self Segment 2 ( H. Noonan, "An Initial Survey", ch.1 of Personal Identity ) Q) State the metaphysical problem of personal identity. Are philosophers after the numerical or qualitative identity of persons through time? Make sure to briefly explain the difference between these two concepts.Generally, identity is conceptually distinguished into (1) Qualitative identity (i..

2023-2 Metaphysics of the Self Segment 1 (T. Metzinger, "The No-Self Alternative")  Q) What is Metzinger’s primarily target of Ontologicial anti-realismMetzinger suggests the ontological anti-realism about the self (ARSO), which claims the self is not a substance. In other words, selves are not self-subsistent entities. The target of this claim is to reveal that there is no solid basis for assum..

2023-2 Metaphysics of the Self Segment 1 (M. Schecthman, "Stories, Lives, and Basic Survival")  Q) On Schechtman’s view ('narrative self-constitution view.'), what amounts to having a narrative?According to Schechtman’s narrative self-constitution view, having a narrative would require that a person be able, at least sometimes, to become conscious of her narrative and make it explicit. This is n..

2023-2 Metaphysics of the Self Segment 1 (G. Strawson, "The Self")  Q) What are the main features of conscious concerns Strawson’s synchronic view?Strawson suggests that the self is a single, distinct mental thing existing at a given time synchronically and a subject of experience. He denies the claim that the self is an agent or has personality. More importantly, he holds that the core conditio..