The Human Animal: Personal Identity Without Psychology by Eric T. Olson

Author:Eric T. Olson [Olson, Eric T.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011-09-03T16:46:03+00:00

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Psychological Approach. Even if you in fact never get separated from your animal, you could be separated. So you could not be that animal: a thing and itself cannot go their separate ways.

I want to argue that since you and I are human animals, the Psychological Approach must be false. To do this I need to defend two claims. First, I need to argue that we really are animals. This is the task of the next four sections. Then I must try to show that the Psychological Approach could not be true of human animals—that no psychological relation is necessary and sufficient for a human animal to persist through time. That is, I must argue that a human animal really does survive when it lapses into a persistent vegetative state; or that no human animal is transferred from one head to another when your cerebrum is transplanted. This more difficult project is taken up in Sections VI to VIII.

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