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Olson, Eric T. Lecturer in Philosophy and Fellow, Churchill College, Cambridge
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Personal Identity Without Psychology
Publication date 1999 (this edition)
Print ISBN-10: 0-19-513423-0
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-513423-0
doi:10.1093/0195134230.001.0001
Abstract: This book argues that our identity over time involves no psychological facts. Psychological accounts of personal identity lead to grave metaphysical problems, and the arguments for them are inconclusive. The book argues that we are animals, and thus have the purely biological identity conditions of animals.
Keywords: animalism,animals,death,metaphysics,personal identity,psychological continuity,self
The Human Animal
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Philosophy Of Mind Series
Series Editor: Owen Flanagan, Duke University
SELF EXPRESSIONS
Mind, Morals, and the Meaning of Life
Owen Flanagan
THE CONSCIOUS MIND
In Search of a Fundamental Theory
David J. Chalmers
DECONSTRUCTING THE MIND
Stephen P. Stich
THE HUMAN ANIMAL
Personal Identity without Psychology
Eric T. Olson
MINDS AND BODIES
Philosophers and Their Ideas
Colin McGinn
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The Human Animal
Personal Identity Without Psychology
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Olson, Eric. 1963
The human animal : personal identity without
psychology / Eric T. Olson
p. cm. (Philosophy of mind series)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-19-510506-0
ISBN 0-19-513423-0 (pbk.)
1. Man. 2. Identity. 3. Philosophy of mind.
I. Title. II. Series.
BD450.046 1997
128dc20 96-7018
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To the unemployed philosophers
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Acknowledgments
Many people helped me with this project. Without the advice and encouragement of Jos Benardete, Jonathan Bennett, and Peter van Inwagen, the book would never have been written. Jonathan Bennett and Derek Parfit made extensive comments on earlier drafts of the book, many of which led to what I hope are significant improvements. Paul Bloomfield, Rocco Gennaro, Marc Hight, Chris Knight, Neil Manson, Carol Rovane, and an anonymous referee also provided valuable criticisms. Peter Unger helped me get the book published, and provided much-needed encouragement in hard times. My warmest thanks to all of them. I also thank Suzanne Bertrand of Philosophy and Phenomenological Research for permission to reprint a few bits from my article "Was I Ever a Fetus?"
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Contents
Introduction
Psychology and Personal Identity
I.
Human Vegetables and Cerebrum Transplants
II.
The Psychological Approach
III.
The Biological Approach
Persistence
I.
Criteria of Personal Identity
II.
Substance Concepts
III.
Movers and Thinkers
IV.
"Person P1 at Time t1"
Why We Need Not Accept the Psychological Approach
I.
The Transplant Intuition
II.
Whole-Brain Transplants
III.
Fission and Hemispherectomy
IV.
Prudential Concern
V.
Moral Responsibility
VI.
The Treatment Argument
VII.
Same Person
VIII.
Practical Consequences of the Biological Approach
Was I Ever a Fetus?
I.
The Fetus Problem
II.
Playing the Problem Down
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III.
Future-Directed Identity and Disjunctive Criteria
IV.
Second-Order Capacities
V.
When Did I Begin?
Are People Animals?
I.
Human People or Human Animals?
II.
Appearances
III.
Coincidence
IV.
Personhood
V.
Why We Are Animals
VI.
Psychological Persistence Conditions for Animals?
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