Refer to Stich and Donaldson book, Chapter 11.
Do NOT use the internet as a source. Use the Stich and Donaldson textbook only.
Task:
Write 4 paragraphs (approximately 500 words) about the following case:
Suppose that Garrett, a 35-year-old man, robs a bank and kills one of the bank guards. While driving away from the scene of the crime, Garrett loses control of his car and crashes into a brick wall. He is not wearing a seat belt, and he sustains a serious head injury which results in a total and permanent loss of memory of everything that has happened for the last 3 years. There is no chance he will ever regain his memory of these 3 years. A year after the robbery, Garrett is brought to trial.
Question: What would a memory theorist say about this case? Is the man on trial numerically identical with the man who robbed the bank? Is the man on trial morally responsible for the bank robbery and the murder? What would a soul theorist say?
Include the following:
1. Define and explain ONE of the Memory Theories of Personal Identity (version 1, version 2, or version 3 from Stich and Donaldson Ch. 11). Definitions should be in quotation marks, word-for-word, followed by a citation. Briefly explain this Memory Theory of personal identity.
2. Explain what a Memory Theorist of personal identity would say about the Garrett case. What would their position be, and why?
3. Explain what a Soul Theorist of personal identity would say about the Garrett case. What would their position be, and why?
4. Explain why the Soul Theorist and Memory Theorist might disagree about the Garrett case.
*Include MLA in-text citations download(author page number). Include bibliography at the end.
Tips and Requirements:
* Write in formal style with paragraphs that connect with signposting. Each paragraph should have one main focus. See Professional Writing Skills: Structure
* Read your paper out loud to someone or yourself to check for grammar mistakes.
* See “APA citation HELPSHEET .pdf” for how to include citations and bibliography.
*Explain sufficiently and clearly, as if you were explaining these ideas to someone who has not read the material.
*Explain short quotes fully. See Professional Writing: Quotations
* Upload the file. Use doc, docx, rtf, or pdf format.
I attached the three papers needed to write the essay. The essay must have a clear thesis and begin with: “I will argue that …”
Important things I must list in the essay:
i) State a clear thesis and argue for it.
ii) Explain relevant parts of Benhabib’s article.
iii) Raise and reply to an objection to your own answer in part i.
iv) Include a bibliography of any external sources. External sources are not required and you don’t need to include course readings. But do cite all quotations by page number.
Are we stuck into our own mental maps? Or we are not? Please elaborate on our epistemological faculties. Do we really can know something? What can we know and how? Support your position with philosophical arguments and/or scientific evidences.Essays must be structured as follows:
– Page 1: Name, Surname, Title of the Essay, The Outline (Table of Content)
– Page 2 and everything after: Introduction, Part 1, Part 2 or more (if needed) strictly according to the Outline, Conclusion
– Last page: References (APA style).
– In the essay you should title each relevant part of your text according to the titles in your Outline (Table of Content).
Deadline for submission of the Midterm Expository Essays is April 11 before 23:59 Baku time. If the paper is submitted later, then 50 points will be deducted from the grade for this paper (as a penalty for not meeting the deadline).
(iii) Required number of words: 1000 (minimum) – 1400 (maximum). These limits include only the text of your essay itself. These limits do not include your name, surname, section number, title of the discipline, title of your essay, outline, references, etc. Please be accurate.
(iv) Requirements to the text: Font – Arial, Size – 12, Spacing – 1.5.
(v) Essays must be supported by the APA style academic references.
(vi) Academic references in case of books (hard copies and PDF format) should include: Author/s’ complete Name/s and Surname/s, Year of publication, Publishing house, Total number of pages in this particular edition of the book (which you used), Exact pages from which certain sentences or ideas were used in your essay.
(vii) Academic references in case of articles should include: Complete name of the Journal, Year, Date and Number of this Journal’s issue, Total number of pages in this particular article, Exact pages from which certain sentences or ideas were used in your essay.
(viii) Academic references in case of online resources should include working (not dead) links, preferably the links from two peer-reviewed internet sources which you can find at the end of the Syllabus. You are strongly advised not to use other – non-reliable – internet sources. All the links must be available (not dead) for double-checking.
(ix) All Essays will be double-checked for plagiarism, so please be attentive while writing and with using quotes and/or fragments from other people’s texts. 1% of plagiarism will be equal to 1 lost point out of 100. Essays must be supported by academic references.
Please answer the following questions:
1- Fully explain what Peter Singer means when he claims that wealthy countries and their citizens, should give to famine relief until the point to where they reach the state of “living at the level of marginal utility.” Please explain your answer, in your own words. (50 points)
2- Do you believe that, “living at the level of marginal utility,” would affect our economy in a negative way? Fully explain the reasoning for your view. (50 points)
Short Summaries in the form of a discussion for chapter 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, and 14. Make sure they are half a page for each chapter (at least 100 words each) so four pages in total. Thank you
A summary for at least 100 words about each chapter. Generally speaking, a post consists of one or more of the following: a summary of the reading, a response to the reading (a question about it, an objection to it, an observation about it, etc.), an analysis of one of the author’s claims, an application of the reading to a current personal or societal issue, a response to a fellow student’s post, and so on.
The book link:
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/death-16?utm_source=walmarthybrid&utm_medium=Affiliate&utm_campaign=OverDrive&utm_term=1225-0001&ranMID=37217&ranEAID=38uuiNrC4%2Fc&ranSiteID=38uuiNrC4_c-soLqwayXe9KzF_QZ3OaZuA&siteID=38uuiNrC4_c-soLqwayXe9KzF_QZ3OaZuA
Chapter 3 of our text discusses the branch of philosophy called epistemology, “the study of human knowledge—how we get it, what it is, whether we have it, or why we don’t” (191). But another significant question is: are we morally responsible for our relationship to knowledge, or more specifically, truth? Many of the current problems in our society are directly related to the belief in and spread of false information, and while philosophical questions might often seem abstract and removed from daily life, sadly, people are being injured and murdered as a result of people spreading false information: how people act in relation to what they believe can literally have deadly consequences.
Read the article “How Do We Get to Herd Immunity for Fake News?”, watch the below video, and then do/answer the following:
Choose a quote (must be a complete sentence) from the article that caught your attention and discuss why it did, specifically, how it relates to our relationship with truth.
Summarize W.K. Clifford’s argument (discussed in the video) with regard to epistemic responsibility (the example about the shipowner is NOT his argument; it is an example meant to illustrate the argument), and then respond to his argument: do you agree or disagree with Clifford? Give reasons and perhaps examples to defend your response.
Here’s the article to read:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/14/opinion/trump-voter-fraud-education.html?searchResultPosition=5
video:
