Philosophy 218: Homework #3

Please use a printer to print your assignment, using (preferably) 1 inch margins, 12 point font, and double spacing. Try to put your answers in everyday English, using a minimum of technical expressions or, at least, explaining any that you use; use your own words as much as possible rather than quotes. Write the last four digits of your student ID number but not your name on the homework. Rough page length limits are in parentheses (‘3/4’ means three-fourths of a page).

1. In “The Self and the Future,” Chisholm calls into question the psychological criterion of personal identity. What reasons does he present that suggest the psychological criterion is wrong? (3/4)
2. Summarize Wiggins’ argument involving the pruning of the tree (but not the argument in which the tree is chopped down) that concludes that two things can occupy exactly the same volume at exactly the same time. (1)
3. Summarize Burke's solution to the Problem of Material Constitution (I’m talking about his view, not his argument). Briefly assess the strengths and weaknesses of this view. (1-1/4)
4. Summarize Heller’s argument. (3/4)