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Please cite each paragraph Resources (found in Modules: Personal Identity, Overview)

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Resources (found in Modules: Personal Identity, Overview).

Refer to Stich and Donaldson book, Chapter 11.

Do NOT use the internet as a source. Use the Stich and Donaldson textbook only. Use of the internet may result in your having to redo the assignment.

Task

four paragraphs  about the following case:

Suppose that Stella, a 35-year-old woman, robs a bank and kills one of the bank guards. While driving away from the scene of the crime, Stella loses control of her car and crashes into a brick wall. She is not wearing a seat belt, and she sustains a serious head injury which results in a total and permanent loss of memory of everything that has happened for the last 3 years. There is no chance she will ever regain her memory of these 3 years. A year after the robbery, Stella is brought to trial.

Question: What would a memory theorist say about this case? Is the person on trial numerically identical with the person who robbed the bank? Is the person on trial morally responsible for the bank robbery and the murder? What would a soul theorist say? 

Include the following:

1. Define and explain ONE of the Memory Theories of Personal Identity (version 1, version 2, or version 3 from Stich and Donaldson Ch. 11). Definitions should be in quotation marks, word-for-word, followed by a citation. Briefly explain this Memory Theory of personal identity.

2. Explain what a Memory Theorist of personal identity would say about this case. What would their position be, and why?

3. Explain what a Soul Theorist of personal identity would say about this case.  What would their position be, and why?

4. Explain why the Soul Theorist and Memory Theorist might disagree about this case.