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    People or selves are socially constituted — Carmelics
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    People or selves are socially constituted

    Consciousness & MindPersonal Identity
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    • 1.Even the content of an individual's sensory perception is conditioned by the community of other conscious individuals
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    • 2.A person's subjectivity depends on intersubjectivity
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    • 1.Locke's psychological continuity account grounds personal identity in memory and consciousness chains that persist independently of any particular social recognition.
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    • 2.Parfit's reductionist view dissolves the self into physical and mental continuity relations that hold between person-stages regardless of social context.
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    • 3.If personal identity is fully explicable in purely psychological or biological terms, social constitution becomes explanatorily redundant rather than constitutive.
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    • 1.Phenomenal consciousness—the 'what it is like' of experience—is irreducibly first-personal and cannot be constituted by third-personal social relations.
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    • 2.Constitutive dependence on social conditions conflates causal influence with ontological constitution, a distinction Strawson and Chalmers's work preserves.
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    Other theorists argue that people or selves are socially constituted. Husserl argues that even the content of an individual’s sensory perception is conditioned by the community of other conscious individuals. A person’s subjectivity thus depends on intersubjectivity (Husserl 1936: Sec. 71, 1950: Secs. 55–60).
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