Questions tagged [ship-of-theseus]
The Ship of Theseus is a thought experiment. If an individual plank is removed and replaced from a ship until the ship has none of the original planks is it the same ship? If the planks removed from the first ship are used to make a new ship is the new ship now the same as the old? The paradox has been discussed throughout history by various philosophers.
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Rewriting Theseus ship problem
Let's consider a band (just called Theseus band, for convenience) consist of 3 members, Alex, Brad, and Charles.
After the first year, Charles left, and Gary joined the band.
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Kant and the Ship of Theseus
Does Kant's philosophy of perception and intuition imply that the unity of perceived individuals is an intuition? If so, this seems to resolve the various paradoxes of physical individuals such as the ...
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What are the philosophical solutions to "ship of Theseus" problem of identity?
Ship of Theseus is a thought experiment in which every piece of a ship kept in a harbor is replaced one at a time. The questions are: would the end result be the same ship or a new ship? If it is not ...
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Theseus' Ship: The concept of an object vs an actual object
First, I am not a philosopher, just a curious person (perhaps one could say that is a philosopher :))
If you take Theseus' ship and use all of the wood to build a house. Let's call it, Theseus' House.
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The "Brain" of Theseus?
I'm sure everyone is familiar with the Ship of Theseus paradox, basically "If you replace parts of a ship over time until none of the original ship is left, is the end product still the same ship?"
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Historiography of the Ship of Theseus
Does anybody know of a historiography or review of the discussion of the idea of the Ship of Theseus and things related thereto (I suppose this might also include Alan Gibbard's discussion of the ...
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Can the "Ship of Theseus" apply to thoughts?
If we go by the ideas of philosophers (such as Hume) which take a person to be a collection of perceptions can we reduce and clone the mind of a person thus recreating the ship of theseus?
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