Ep. #3 - The Ship of Theseus and Identity Puzzles
Egg Timer Philosophy
English - May 12, 2020 14:02 - 9 minutes - 8.68 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsPhilosophy Society & Culture Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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If we dismantle a ship one plank at a time and replace the rotting wood with new planks of wood slowly over a few decades and then wake up to find that the ship no longer has any of the original parts left is it the same ship? This is the puzzle of the Ship of Theseus and the focus of this egg timer. During this episode questions about identity over time will float past ships and be applied to persons as well.
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