The Problem of Continuity in Identity Timeline Game
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About This Challenge
In exploring the problem of continuity in identity, we have created a timeline game where players must place events in their correct chronological order.
- Players will be challenged to think critically about the sequence of events and how they contribute to shaping a person’s identity.
- The game will test players’ knowledge of historical events and their understanding of cause and effect in shaping individual identities.
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- 1st century AD: The Ship of Theseus paradox is first recorded by Plutarch
- 1690: John Locke introduces the concept of personal identity in 'An Essay Concerning Human Understanding'
- 1739: David Hume challenges the idea of a continuous self in 'A Treatise of Human Nature'
- 1781: Immanuel Kant proposes the concept of transcendental apperception in 'Critique of Pure Reason'
- 1984: Derek Parfit publishes 'Reasons and Persons', discussing the problem of personal identity
- 1970: Bernard Williams criticizes the concept of personal identity in 'The Self and the Future'
- 1991: Daniel Dennett presents his views on personal identity in 'The Self as a Center of Narrative Gravity'
- 2003: Thomas Metzinger explores the illusion of the self in 'Being No One: The Self-Model Theory of Subjectivity'
- 1985: Oliver Sacks discusses cases of disrupted personal identity in 'The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat'
- 2003: Raymond Tallis argues against reductionist views of personal identity in 'The Hand: A Philosophical Inquiry into Human Being'
- 1966: Alan Watts explores Eastern philosophies on selfhood in 'The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are'
- 2006: Susan Blackmore discusses the concept of self in 'Conversations on Consciousness'
- 1987: Thomas Nagel examines the limits of subjective experience in 'What Does It All Mean? A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy'
- 1975: Elizabeth Anscombe challenges the idea of a persisting self in 'The First Person'
- 1641: Rene Descartes posits the existence of a thinking self in 'Meditations on First Philosophy'
- 2011: Galen Strawson argues for the reality of the self in 'The Evident Connexion: Hume on Personal Identity'
- 1785: Thomas Reid defends the existence of a continuous self in 'Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man'
- 1990: Paul Ricoeur explores the narrative construction of personal identity in 'Oneself as Another'
- 1996: Marya Schechtman discusses the problem of narrative identity in 'The Constitution of Selves'
- 2021: Anil Seth presents a neuroscientific perspective on selfhood in 'Being You: A New Science of Consciousness'