PH0123 Personal Identity

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2016
Extent and Intensity
0/2. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Radim Bělohrad, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Josef Krob, CSc.
Department of Philosophy – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Hana Holmanová
Supplier department: Department of Philosophy – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Tue 10:50–12:25 N41
Prerequisites
reading in English
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
At the end of the course students should be able to explain and critically assess the most prominent theories of personal identity and evaluate their consequences for issues in normative and applied ethics.
Syllabus
  • Motivations for the study of personal identity;
  • Soul, memory, body and brain theories and their implications for immortality;
  • Psychological and biological theories and their applications;
  • Narrative theory and IDM theory
  • Personal identity, egoistic concern and anticipation;
  • Personal identity, abortion and stem cell research;
  • Personal identity, cloning, genetic interventions, enhancement;
  • Personal identity and (moral)responsibility;
  • Personal identity and ethical theories;
  • Alternative conceptions of the relationship between ethics and personal identity.
Literature
    recommended literature
  • DEGRAZIA, David. Human identity and bioethics. 1st pub. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005, xi, 300. ISBN 052182561X. info
  • BAKER, Lynne Rudder. Persons and bodies : a constitution view. 1st pub. Cambridge: Cambridge University, 2000, xii, 233. ISBN 0521597196. info
  • OLSON, Eric T. The human animal : personal identity without psychology. 1st pub. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997, x, 189. ISBN 0195134230. info
  • SCHECHTMAN, Marya. The constitution of selves. First published. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996, xi, 169. ISBN 9780801474170. info
  • PARFIT, Derek. Reasons and persons. Repr. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987, xv, 543. ISBN 9780198249085. info
  • LOCKE, John. Esej o lidském rozumu. Translated by Anna Dokulilová. Praha: Svoboda, 1984, 407 s. info
Teaching methods
seminář
Assessment methods
2 absences allowed. Credit given on the basis of final in-class essay. The essay topic will be assigned on the day of the exam. In case of failure, a follow-up colloquium will take place focusing on the problems of the essay.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
Teacher's information
https://elf.phil.muni.cz/elf2/course/view.php?id=2277
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2010, Spring 2012, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2019.
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