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?

1. Plutarch's "Theseus paradox"
2. Hobbes' "second ship"
3. Hume's "Bundle Theory"
4. Spatiotemporal continuity
5. Savage's "Gradual Replacement"
6. Popular public intuition
7. 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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