Personal Identity: Crash Course Philosophy #19
Today Hank is building on last week's exploration of identity to focus on personal identity. Does it in reside in your body? Is it in the collective memories of your ...
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Crash Course Philosophy is brought to you by Squarespace. Squarespace: share your passion with the world. Who is The Doctor? Is it this guy? Or this one? How about him? As any good Whovian knows, the answer is yes, all of them. But, also, wait: No. In the show Doctor Who, each incarnation of The Doctor has a completely different body, different mannerisms, likes and dislikes and, to some extent, memories. So… how are they all The Doctor? Science fiction is great at giving us scenarios to grapple with that seem far-out and only barely possible. But when you think about it, the issue of Who is Who isn’t that much more clear-cut in real life. The fact is, you can take the same questions I asked about The Doctor, and ask them about anyone. Like…me. I mean, are these people any...
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Crash Course Philosophy is brought to you by Squarespace. Squarespace: share your passion with the world. Who is The Doctor? Is it this guy? Or this one? How about him? As any good Whovian knows, the answer is yes, all of them. But, also, wait: No. In the show Doctor Who, each incarnation of The Doctor has a completely different body, different mannerisms, likes and dislikes and, to some extent, memories. So… how are they all The Doctor? Science fiction is great at giving us scenarios to grapple with that seem far-out and only barely possible. But when you think about it, the issue of Who is Who isn’t that much more clear-cut in real life. The fact is, you can take the same questions I asked about The Doctor, and ask them about anyone. Like…me. I mean, are these people any...
