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The Human Animal: Personal Identity Without Psychology

By Eric T. Olson

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Year
1999
ISBN
0195134230, 9780195134230
Language
english
Format
MOBI
Filesize
2 MB (1862567 bytes)
Edition
Paperback
Pages
200\0
Topic
Psychology
Time added
2018-11-12 06:37:42

Description

Most philosophers writing about personal identity in recent years claim that what it takes for us to persist through time is a matter of psychology. In this groundbreaking new book, Eric Olson argues that such approaches face daunting problems, and he defends in their place a radically non-psychological account of personal identity. He defines human beings as biological organisms, and claims that no psychological relation is either sufficient or necessary for an organism to persist. Rejecting several famous thought experiments dealing with personal identity, he instead argues that one could survive the destruction of all of one's psychological contents and capabilities as long as the human organism remains alive.

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