Ship of Theseus: The paradox of identity despite change
Dec 04, 2024•15 min•Season 1Ep. 11
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Episode description
What gives any object a constant identity even though its materials, components, and matter are constantly evolving and gradually being replaced over time?
- Plutarch's "Theseus paradox"
- Hobbes' "second ship"
- Hume's "Bundle Theory"
- Spatiotemporal continuity
- Savage's "Gradual Replacement"
- Popular public intuition
- Engagement history criterion
This podcast is Al-generated with NotebookLM, using the following sources, research, and analysis:
- Bundle Theory (Wikipedia, 2024.11.29)
- Davidson's Swampman theory (Wikipedia, 2024.11.29)
- Haecceity (Wikipedia, 2024.11.29)
- How to Test the Ship of Theseus (Campdelacreu/García-Moya Marti/Terrone, 2022.11)
- In the Mind of Theseus or Hobbes and the Paradox of the Second Ship (Lupascu, 2019.01)
- Mereological essentialism (Wikipedia, 2024.11.29)
- Neurath's boat (Wikipedia, 2024.11.29)
- Perdurantism (Wikipedia, 2024.11.29)
- Philosophy of self (Wikipedia, 2024.11.29)
- Ship of Theseus (Wikipedia, 2024.11.29)
- Sorites paradox (Wikipedia, 2024.11.29)
- Teletransportation paradox (Wikipedia, 2024.11.29)
- Two Ships of Theseus (Dranseika, 2024.06.08)
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