Assignment: Exercise PHI
Choose and answer two, and only two questions, from the five below:
1. Can you imagine being the person you are now but attached to a different body, or not attached to a body (i.e., disembodied)? Discuss the implications of your answer for mind/body dualism.
2. What is a person? Provide a definition, and then discuss the implications of your definition for the issues of abortion, animal rights, and extraterrestrial intelligent beings. Does your definition provide intuitively plausible results regarding which beings are persons?
The response should include a reference list. Double-space, using Times New Roman 12 pnt font, one-inch margins, and APA style of writing and citations.