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1
Empiricists have argued that there are no souls because
A)there is no God.
B)souls are weightless.
C)souls cannot be perceived.
D)souls can be perceived.
2
If animalism is true, then
A)identical persons have identical souls.
B)then having the same body is a necessary condition for being the same person.
C)persons can be immaterial things.
D)your soul resides in your DNA.
3
According to Locke, being a person requires that you are
A)human.
B)without sin.
C)capable of speaking.
D)none of the above.
4
The possibility of body switches suggests that
A)animalism must be true.
B)our identity cannot reside in our bodies.
C)persons are souls.
D)reincarnation is false.
5
Souls have traditionally been considered to be
A)thoughts.
B)thinking substances.
C)your memories.
D)your feelings.
6
Locke's memory theory seems inadequate because
A)it violates the principle of the transitivity of identity.
B)is circular.
C)it leaves desires and intentions out of account.
D)all of the above.
7
It is doubtful that you can achieve immortality by having your mind uploaded into computers because
A)a replicated you is not numerically identical to you.
B)computers cannot store all the required data.
C)computers are not bodies.
D)replications of you would never be perfect.
8
There's good reason to believe that if our desires and intentions were somehow erased, then
A)we would be in a coma.
B)we would cease to exist.
C)we would be morally responsible.
D)we would still be the same person.
9
Reid's tale of the brave officer and senile general shows that
A)personal identity is impossible.
B)lost memories mean lost personhood.
C)Locke's memory theory involves a contradiction.
D)people are different persons throughout their lives.
10
Bishop Butler is credited with realizing that Locke's memory theory
A)is self-evident.
B)relies on the soul theory.
C)presupposes fake memories.
D)is circular.
11
Shoemaker's brain transplant thought experiment shows that
A)brains cannot be divided.
B)where our brains go, we go.
C)brain transplants destroy personal identity.
D)brains in different bodies become different persons.
12
Split brain experiments suggest that
A)the brain theory is inadequate.
B)each skull contains two persons.
C)two can be one.
D)our psychology is grounded in our brain.
13
Parfit suggests that what really matters in survival is
A)immortality.
B)memory.
C)numerical identity.
D)psychological continuity.
14
Parfit concludes that if there were two of you-two who were psychologically and physically indistinguishable-then
A)one of you would have to die.
B)having two of you would be better than having you be completely obliterated.
C)survival would be impossible.
D)you would not exist at all.
15
Numerical identity
A)does not seem to be necessary for survival.
B)does not seem to be necessary for responsibility.
C)does not seem to be all there is to personal identity.
D)all of the above.







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