Unit quiz: Persons, minds, and the reach of responsibility

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Question 1

A biographer claims her subject is ‘not really the same person’ as the young man who committed an offence, because he disowns that period and will not narrate it as his own. Assess the claim using this level’s distinctions.The claim runs narrativity as a factual test of identity when it is at most an ideal, so a disavowal that fails the reality constraint leaves the earlier agent answerable rather than replacing himThe claim is sound, since a person who cannot narrate his past as his own has lost the self to which the criminal law attaches liability

Question 2

A researcher announces that her model reproduces every behavioural signature associated with pain, including withdrawal, protective behaviour, and self-report, and concludes that the system feels pain as she does. Evaluate the inference.She has resolved the hard problem, because reproducing every behavioural signature is the only evidence one could have for attributing experience to another systemShe has answered the easy problems and asserted a bridge to the hard problem, since nothing in the functional account establishes that experience accompanies the function

Question 3

A manager reprimands an employee for conduct that the manager engages in publicly every week, and the reprimand’s description of the conduct is accurate. Which condition of a responsibility claim is defective?Standing, since the warrant for the attitude may be intact while this particular party is not positioned to make the demandAttributability, since the employee’s conduct was not after all an expression of his own character

Question 4

An agent knowingly and deliberately harms another, and her capacity to recognise and act on reasons is unimpaired at the time. Her ruthlessness was instilled in infancy by a group that raised her to be exactly this way. Which premise does a soft-line reply to the manipulation argument attack?The conclusion, by showing that the outcome was caused, which compatibilists deny is incompatible with responsibilityThe parity premise, by arguing that in the manipulated cases the action does not flow from the agent’s own evaluation of reasons in the way it does in the ordinary case

Question 5

A contractor says of an unusually large completion bonus: ‘the bonus gives me a reason to want to want the signature, but it gives me no reason to think the contract is a good one.’ Which structure is she reporting?A reason of the wrong kind, since the incentive attaches to holding the attitude rather than to the merits of the object of the attitudeA motivating reason generated by her motivational set, since the bonus gives her something she already cares about

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