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Zusatztext It is good that Snowdon's arguments and ideas have finally been presented together in a prominent venue. The book offers a valuable treatment of some standard anti-animalist arguments, and it has much to teach anyone thinking about animalism or personal identity. Informationen zum Autor Paul F. Snowdon read Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at University College, Oxford, and remained there for the BPhil. He was appointed a lecturer in philosophy at Reading University in 1970, and became a Fellow and Lecturer in Philosophy at Exeter College Oxford a year later. In 2001 he became the Grote Professor in Mind Logic at University College London. He was President of the Aristotelian Society from 2003 to 2004, and has held visiting posts at Williams College in the USA, Umea University in Sweden, and the University of Otago in New Zealand. Klappentext What kind of thing are we? Paul Snowdon's answer is that we are animals, of a sort. This view--'animalism'--may seem obvious but on the whole philosophers have rejected it. Snowdon argues that animalism is a defensible way of thinking about ourselves. Its rejection rests on the tendency when doing philosophy to mistake fantasy for reality. Zusammenfassung What kind of thing are we? Paul Snowdon's answer is that we are animals, of a sort. This view--'animalism'--may seem obvious but on the whole philosophers have rejected it. Snowdon argues that animalism is a defensible way of thinking about ourselves. Its rejection rests on the tendency when doing philosophy to mistake fantasy for reality. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Introduction 1: Animalism 2: Animalism and some Philosophical Problems 3: Animals and Persons 4: Animals and Us 5: Some Questions about Animals 6: [A and not P] Cases: An Introduction 7: Multiple Personality Disorder 8: Animalism and the Unity of Consciousness 9: [P and not A] Cases: An Introduction 10: Brain Transplants, Animals, and Us 11: Strengthening the Rejection of Transplant Arguments 12: Conclusions and Consequences ...
