Introductory Notes
- This page lists the Contents and References from "Olson (Eric) - What are We? A Study of Personal Ontology". These were online at Sheffield University: Eric Olson, but now seem to have been taken down, though I have taken copies. The electronic version of the References was paged backwards!
- The purpose of this page is firstly to make it easier for me to check out the references in "Olson (Eric) - What are We? A Study of Personal Ontology", but was also an opportunity for me to check that I had access to the books and papers.
- Those listed with a link from the Author’s name only are not in my possession, and likely never will be.
- The draft references are not quite identical to the list in the book. I’ve noted the couple of occasions where they are omitted from the book, but have not noted the few occasions where there are additional references.
- I’ve not bothered to note where I have a different edition to that cited.
- Occasionally the sequencing of the references (yyyya/b/c) differs between the draft and the published book. I’ve followed the book, but will need to be careful when I link them up in the text.
- The Contents has links to the full text of the draft Chapters – again taken from the above site when they were there – and to the various Notes I’m writing on the chapters themselves.
Contents
- The Question.
Full Text: "Olson (Eric) - What Are We? The Question".
- What are we?1
- Some Answers2
- 'We'3
- Rephrasing the question4
- Must there be an answer?5
- How the question differs from others6
- Why it matters7
Animals. Full Text: "Olson (Eric) - What Are We? Animals".
- Animalism8
- What is an animal?9
- The thinking-animal argument10
- Are there animals?11
- Can animals think?12
- Too many thinkers13
- Revisionary linguistics14
- Animalism and our identity over time15
- Further objections16
Constitution. Full Text: "Olson (Eric) - What Are We? Constitution".
- Material things constituted by animals17
- The clay-modelling puzzle18
- The replacement puzzle and the amputation puzzle19
- Thinking animals again20
- When does constitution occur?21
- What determines our boundaries?22
Brains. Full Text: "Olson (Eric) - What Are We? Brains".
- The brain view23
- The thinking-brain problem24
- The brain view and our identity over time25
- Thinking-subject minimalism26
- Direct involvement27
- Homunculism28
Temporal Parts. Full Text: "Olson (Eric) - What Are We? Temporal Parts".
- Four-dimensional hunks of matter29
- Temporary intrinsics30
- Lumps and statues31
- The problem of modal incompatibility32
- Puzzles of personal identity33
- Thinking animals and other worries34
- Thinking stages35
- The stage view36
Bundles. Full Text: "Olson (Eric) - What Are We? Bundles".
- Bundle theories37
- Traditional arguments for the bundle view38
- Personal identity and the bundle view39
- Can thoughts think?40
- Thinking animals once more41
- Bundles of universals42
- The program view43
Souls. Full Text: "Olson (Eric) - What Are We? Souls".
- Immaterialism44
- Traditional arguments for immaterialism45
- The paradox of increase46
- The cost of materialism47
- Objections to immaterialism48
- Compound dualism49
- Hylomorphism50
- Simple materialism51
Nihilism. Full Text: "Olson (Eric) - What Are We? Nihilism".
- We do not exist52
- Is nihilism mad?53
- Is nihilism self-refuting?54
- Unity and simplicity55
- Paraphrase: the mentalistic strategy56
- Paraphrase: the atomistic strategy57
- What it would mean if we did not exist58
What Now? Full Text: "Olson (Eric) - What Are We? What Now?".
- Some results59
- Some opinions60
- Animalism and the thinking-parts problem61
- Animalism and the clay-modelling puzzle62
- Theories of composition63
- Composition and what we are64
- Brutal composition65
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- "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Materialism with a Human Face", 2001
- "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - On Making Things Up: Constitution and Its Critics", 2002
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- "Lowe (E.J.) - Subjects of Experience", 1996
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- "McDowell (John) - Reductionism and the First Person", 1997
- "McMahan (Jeff) - The Ethics of Killing: Problems at the Margins of Life", 2002
- "Mellor (D.H.) - Real Time II", 1998
- "Merricks (Trenton) - There Are No Criteria For Identity Over Time", 1998
- "Merricks (Trenton) - How to Live Forever Without Saving Your Soul: Physicalism and Immortality", 2001a
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- "Nagel (Thomas) - The View from Nowhere", 1986
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- "Olson (Eric) - The Human Animal - Personal Identity Without Psychology", 1997a
- "Olson (Eric) - Relativism and Persistence", 1997b
- "Olson (Eric) - A Compound of Two Substances", 2001a
- "Olson (Eric) - Material Coincidence and the Indiscernibility Problem", 2001b
- "Olson (Eric) - The Ontology of Material Objects", 2002a
- "Olson (Eric) - Thinking Animals and the Reference of 'I'", 2002b
- "Olson (Eric) - What Does Functionalism Tell Us About Personal Identity", 2002c
- "Olson (Eric) - An Argument for Animalism", 2003a
- "Olson (Eric) - Was Jekyll Hyde?", 2003b
- "Olson (Eric) - Animalism and the Corpse Problem", 2004
- "Olson (Eric) - Is there a Bodily Criterion of Personal Identity", 2006a
- "Olson (Eric) - The Paradox of Increase", 2006b
- "Olson (Eric) - Temporal Parts and Timeless Parthood", 2006c
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- "Shoemaker (Sydney) - Self and Substance", 1997
- "Shoemaker (Sydney) - Self, Body, and Coincidence", 1999
- "Shoemaker (Sydney) - Functionalism and Personal Identity - a Reply", 2004
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Comment:
In-Page Footnotes
Footnote 66: Footnote 67:
- I have downloaded this from Cambridge Core, but not imported it into my database as it doesn’t look sufficiently relevant. We’ll see what use Olson makes of it.
Footnotes 68, 69: Footnotes 70, 71:
- References to this work are omitted from the hard-copy book.
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