Personal Identity #1: Ship of Theseus
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Hey all! Welcome to the first part in a series on personal identity. This video covers a topic that brings some nostalgia for me. It's the very first thing that I learned when studying for my BA in Philosophy and Psychology so many years ago. The topic of the video is The Ship of Theseus, a thought experiment that comes to us from Plutarch's Parallel Lives. It is a thought experiment that gets us thinking about what it means for something to be the same thing over a period of time. Or to give it a slightly more technical name, 'the persistence of personal identity'. In the next video on the topic we'll look at a few terms and concepts about identity that are important to understanding the philosophy behind it, as well as thinking about the topic!
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Timestamps
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00:00 - Introduction
01:26 - The Ship of Theseus
02:38 - Break It Down!
05:23 - The Mop and the Sock
06:48 - The Ship of Hobbes
07:44 - Conclusion
References
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‘Parallel Lives’ (2024) Wikipedia. Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paralle... (Accessed: 10 August 2024).
‘Plutarch’ (2024) Wikipedia. Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutarch (Accessed: 10 August 2024).
Quest Diagnostics (2023) Do my cells really change every 7 years?. Available at: https://www.questdiagnostics.com/pati... (Accessed: 10 August 2024).
‘Ship of Theseus’ (2024) Wikipedia. Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of... (Accessed: 10 August 2024).
Warburton, N. (2010) The Self, Milton Keynes, The Open University.