For this assignment you are required to read the articles "The Dis-remembered" by Charles Leadbeater and ""I Am Who I Am": On the Perceived Threats to Personal Identity from Deep Brain Stimulation" by Frangoise Baylis, both on blackboard under course documents. Each of these sources considers aspects of the issue of personal identity which can challenge the account of what is called, in chapter 5 What makes you you, the psychological continuity argument. For this assignment, drawing from both of these two sources (one a magazine article and the other an article from a scholarly journal) construct an argument for personal identity based on the following quote from Baylis' article: "[I]ndividuals constitute themselves as persons by coming to think of themselves as persisting subjects who have had experience in the past and will continue to have experience in the future, taking certain experiences as theirs… A person's identity … is constituted by the content of her self-narrative, and the traits, actions, and experiences included in it are, by virtue of that inclusion, hers ([13], p. 94)." Your argument has to address the objections raised by Korman's rejection of psychological identity as a sufficient basis for personal identity. This assignment requires you to formulate an argument. You are not being asked to summarize or otherwise evaluate the readings on which it is based, but to draw from the three relevant sources (two articles and the chapter) and construct an argument (premises and a conclusion). You must clearly and carefully indicate in your argument the source of the premises and also take care to clearly spell out (a) how the premises support the conclusion and (b) how your argument fits Korman's negative argument about psychological continuity.
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