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Zusatztext This volume is the first of its kind: a collection of articles focusing specifically on the Animalist theory of personal identity. ... It is essential reading for anyone working on personal identity, and should be read by anyone interested in the fundamental question as to what kind of thing we human persons are. ... Animalism is a superb collection, packed full of excellent chapters. To anyone interested in Animalism and related topics, this book could not be more highly recommended. Informationen zum Autor Stephan Blatti is Associate Professor and Chair of Philosophy at the University of Memphis, where he is also an affiliate member of the Institute for Intelligent Systems. After receiving his BA from Ohio State University, he completed his B.Phil and D.Phil at the University of Oxford. He held positions at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and Duke University before moving to Memphis. His work focuses primarily on personal identity and its relation to issues in ontology, philosophical psychology, philosophy of biology, and ethics. In addition to various articles, he is the co-editor (with Sandra Lapointe) of Ontology After Carnap (OUP 2016).Paul Snowdon was educated at University College, Oxford, reading Philosophy, Politics, and Economics and graduating in 1968. He studied for the B.Phil at Oxford, between 1968 and 1970. After holding a lectureship in philosophy at the University of Reading, he became a Fellow and Lecturer in Philosophy at Exeter College, Oxford. In 2001 he was appointed Grote Professor of Mind and Logic at UCL, retiring in 2014. He has published one book on animalism and various articles on perception, the philosophy of mind and action, metaphysics, and the history of philosophy. Klappentext What are we? What is the nature of the human person? Animalism has a straightforward answer to these long-standing philosophical questions: we are animals. Fifteen philosophers offer new essays exploring this increasingly popular view, some defending animalism, others criticizing it, and others exploring its more philosophical implications. Zusammenfassung What are we? What is the nature of the human person? Animalism has a straightforward answer to these long-standing philosophical questions: we are animals. Fifteen philosophers offer new essays exploring this increasingly popular view, some defending animalism, others criticizing it, and others exploring its more philosophical implications. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Stephan Blatti and Paul F. Snowdon: Introduction Part One 2: Derek Parfit: We Are Not Human Beings 3: Lynne Rudder Baker: Animalism vs. Constitutionalism 4: Denis Robinson: Constitution and the Debate between Animalism and Psychological Views 5: Mark Johnston: Remnant Persons: Animalism's Undoing 6: Sydney Shoemaker: Thinking Animals without Animalism Part Two 7: Eric Olson: Animalism and Remnant People 8: Stephan Blatti: Headhunters 9: Rory Madden: Thinking Parts 10: David Hershenov: Four-Dimensional Animalism Part Three 11: Tim Campbell and Jeff McMahan: Animalism and the Varieties of Conjoined Twinning 12: Mark Reid: A Case in which Two Persons Exist in One Animal 13: Paul F. Snowdon: Animalism and the Unity of Consciousness 14: Jens Johansson: Animal Ethics 15: David Shoemaker: The Stony Metaphysical Heart of Animalism ...
