Knowledge Argument versus Bundle Theory according to Derek Parfit

Scientia et Fides

Tomasz Huzarek¹ 

[1] Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w ToruniuWydział TeologicznyZakład Filozofii Chrześcijańskiej;

关键词: subject;    person;    identity;    qualia;    consciousness;    self-consciousness;   

DOI  :  10.12775/SetF.2017.027

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

According to constitutive reductionism of Derek Parfit, a subject/person is not a separate existing being but his existence consists in the existence of a brain and body, performance of actions, thinking and occurrence of other physical and mental events. The identity of the subject in time comes down only to “Relation R” - mental consistency and/or connectedness – elicited by appropriate reasons. In the following article, I will try, relying on Frank Johnson's Knowledge Argument, to argue in favour of the following conclusions: (1) a person/subject is a “fact”irreducible to body and physical relations with the environment and (2) a subject is something/”fact” non-reducible to mental occurrences.

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