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Eric Olson

[Olson (Eric)]

This Page provides links to the Books and Papers (including Book Chapters, where I have itemised these) by this Author contained in my collection. Clearly, there may be many more works in the Author's oeuvre that I don't possess. An introductory note on the Author appears first. In case of misclassification, or ambiguous classification, authors of the same surname as this Author are listed for easy access. If any (other) Authors, Books, Papers or Notes in my collection cite this Author, a table of links is provided before the list of the Author's works. Scroll down or follow the links above.

Author Narrative:

• Eric Olson is Professor of Philosophy at Sheffield University. His speciality is Animalism¹ in the field of Personal Identity².
• His personal web-page at Sheffield is Sheffield University: Eric Olson.
• For further information, see this Note³.

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Links to other Authors with Surnames Olson

Olson (Jay)

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Authors, Books, Papers & Notes Citing this Author

Author	Title	Medium	Extra Links	Read?
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Materialism with a Human Face	Paper		Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	When Do Persons Begin and End?	Paper		Yes
Blatti (Stephan)	Animalism (Continuum)	Paper		Yes
Blatti (Stephan)	Headhunters	Paper
Blatti (Stephan), Ed.	The Lives of Human Animals	Paper		Yes
Bourget (David) & Chalmers (David)	The PhilPapers Surveys: What Do Philosophers Believe?	Paper		Yes
Carter (William)	Will I Be a Dead Person?	Paper		Yes
Cottingham (John)	Why we are not 'persons'	Paper		Yes
da Cunha (Rui Vieira)	Will I ever Be a Cyborg?	Paper
DeGrazia (David)	Are we essentially persons? Olson, Baker, and a reply	Paper		Yes
Eklund (Matti)	The Existence of Personites	Paper
Ferner (Adam)	Metaphysics and biology: a critique of David Wiggins’ account of personal identity	Paper
Hershenov (David)	Animals, Persons and Bioethics	Paper
Hershenov (David)	Olson's Account of Function and Substance Concepts	Paper
Hershenov (David)	Who Doesn't Have a Problem of Too Many Thinkers?	Paper
Johnston (Mark)	Remnant Persons: Animalism's Undoing	Paper
Kazez (Jean)	The Philosophical Parent: Asking the Hard Questions About Having and Raising Children	Paper		Yes
Keles (Serap)	Personal identity and persistence over time : the hybrid view with regard to hylomorphism	Paper
Kolak (Daniel)	Room for a View: On the Metaphysical Subject of Personal Identity	Paper
Liao (S. Matthew)	Twinning, Inorganic Replacement, and the Organism View	Paper
Meincke (Anne Sophie)	Body or Organism? Eric T. Olson’s Charge of Cartesianism against the Bodily Criterion of Personal Identity	Paper
Meincke (Anne Sophie)	Processual Animalism: Towards a Scientifically Informed Theory of Personal Identity	Paper
Mellor (D.H.)	Real Time II: Preface	Paper		Yes
Noller (Jorg)	A Transformative Account of Personal Identity	Paper
Noller (Jorg)	Beyond Animalism and Constitutionalism: The Person as A Form of Life	Paper
Noller (Jorg)	Person	Paper
Noonan (Harold)	Arguments Against Animalism: Comments on L.R.Baker 'Persons & Bodies'	Paper		Yes
Noonan (Harold)	Identity, Constitution and Microphysical Supervenience	Paper		Yes
Persson (Ingmar)	Our Identity and the Separability of Person and Organism	Paper
Robinson (Denis)	Constitution and the Debate between Animalism and Psychological Views	Paper
Shoemaker (David)	The Stony Metaphysical Heart of Animalism	Paper
Snowdon (Paul)	Persons, Animals, Ourselves: Preface	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Animalists	Note	2
Todman (Theo)	Baker - Materialism with a Human Face	Note
Todman (Theo)	Bodily Continuity	Note
Todman (Theo)	Body Criterion	Note
Todman (Theo)	Brain Transplants	Note
Todman (Theo)	Constitution	Note
Todman (Theo)	Constitution View - Objections	Note
Todman (Theo)	Counting Persons	Note
Todman (Theo)	DeGrazia - Are We Essentially Persons?	Note
Todman (Theo)	Dicephalus	Note
Todman (Theo)	Hybrid Theories	Note
Todman (Theo)	Nihilism	Note
Todman (Theo)	Noonan - Persons and Bodies - Response	Note
Todman (Theo)	Numerical Identity	Note
Todman (Theo)	Olson	Note	2
Todman (Theo)	Perdurantism	Note
Todman (Theo)	Personite	Note
Todman (Theo)	Phase Sortals	Note
Todman (Theo)	Psychological Continuity	Note
Todman (Theo)	Soul Criterion	Note
Todman (Theo)	Souls	Note
Todman (Theo)	Supervenience	Note
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Animalists	Paper	2	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Bodily Continuity	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Body Criterion	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Brain Transplants	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 01 (Introduction)	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 01 (Introduction)	Note
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 02 (What are We?)	Note
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 02 (What Are We?)	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 02 (What are We?)	Note
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 02 (What Are We?)	Paper	2	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 02 (What are We?)	Note	2
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 02 (What Are We?)	Paper	2	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 02 (What are We?)	Note
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 03 (What is a Person?)	Note
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 03 (What is a Person?)	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 03 (What is a Person?)	Note
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 03 (What is a Person?)	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 04 (Basic Metaphysical Issues)	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 04 (Basic Metaphysical Issues)	Note
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 04 (Basic Metaphysical Issues)	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 04 (Basic Metaphysical Issues)	Note
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 05 (Persistence and Time)	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 05 (Persistence and Time)	Note
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 06 (Animalism and Arguments for It)	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 06 (Animalism and Arguments for It)	Note	2
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 06 (Animalism and Arguments for It)	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 06 (Animalism and Arguments for It)	Note
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 06 (Animalism and Arguments for It)	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 07 (The Constitution View and Arguments for It)	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 07 (The Constitution View and Arguments for It)	Note
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 08 (Arguments against Animalism)	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 08 (Arguments against Animalism)	Note
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 08 (Arguments against Animalism)	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 08 (Arguments against Animalism)	Note
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 09 (Arguments against the Constitution View)	Note
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 09 (Arguments against the Constitution View)	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 10 (Thought Experiments)	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 10 (Thought Experiments)	Note
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Constitution	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Constitution View - Objections	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Counting Persons	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Current Position	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Current Stance	Note
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Dicephalus	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Hybrid Theories	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Nihilism	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Numerical Idenity	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Olson	Paper	2	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Perdurantism	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Personite	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Phase Sortals	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Preface	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Preface	Note
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Psychological Continuity	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Soul Criterion	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Souls	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Supervenience	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Thought	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thought	Note
Tzinman (Rina)	Against the Brainstem View of the Persistence of Human Animals	Paper
Van Inwagen (Peter)	Dualism and Materialism: Athens and Jerusalem?	Paper		Yes
Van Inwagen (Peter)	Materialism and the Psychological-continuity Account of Personal Identity	Paper		Yes

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Author's Books In My Possession

Author	Title	Pages	Read?	Further Information
Olson (Eric), Etc.	Abstracta Special Issue on 'The Human Animal'	45	Yes	Book Abstract
Olson (Eric)	Papers on Identity Boxes: Vol 13 (Olson)	2000	16%	Book Abstract
Olson (Eric)	The Human Animal - Personal Identity Without Psychology	189	Yes	Book Abstract
Olson (Eric)	What are We? A Study of Personal Ontology	264	Yes	Book Abstract

Author's Papers In My Possession

Author	Title	Pages	Read?	Further Information
Olson (Eric)	A Compound of Two Substances	16		Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	An Argument for Animalism	17	Yes	Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	Animalism and the Corpse Problem	9	Yes	Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	Animalism and the Remnant-Person Problem	15	Yes	Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	Are People Animals?	30	Yes	Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	Ben's Body Reads the Guardian	14	8%	Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	Composition and Coincidence	30		Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	Computer-Generated Life	11		Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	Critical Notice of Trenton Merricks' 'Objects and Persons'	8	11%	Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	Dion's Foot	6	Yes	Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	Eric T. Olson: The Philosopher with No Hands	11	Yes	Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	Ethics and the Generous Ontology	12	Yes	Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	Human Atoms	11	33%	Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	Human People Or Human Animals	23	Yes	Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	Identity, Quantification and Number	22	11%	Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	Immanent Causation and Life After Death	16	Yes	Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	Imperfect Identity	18	Yes	Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	In Search of the Simple View	19		Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	Is Psychology Relevant To Personal Identity?	14	Yes	Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	Is there a Bodily Criterion of Personal Identity	19		Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	Life After Death and the Devastation of the Grave	16	Yes	Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	Lowe's Defence of Constitutionalism	4		Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	Material Coincidence and the Indiscernibility Problem	19	Yes	Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	Metaphysics - Answers to Five Questions	8	22%	Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric) & Witt (Karsten)	Narrative and persistence	16	13%	Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	Objects and Their Matter	23	19%	Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	On Parfit's View That We Are Not Human Beings	18	Yes	Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	Parfit’s Metaphysics and What Matters in Survival	19	11%	Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	Persistence	20	Yes	Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	Personal Identity	17	Yes	Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	Personal Identity - Oxford Bibliographies Online	19	Yes	Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	Personal Identity (Stanford, 2002)	16	Yes	Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	Personal Identity (Stanford, 2007)	14		Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	Personal Identity (Stanford, 2008)	24		Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	Personal Identity (Stanford, 2010)	36	7%	Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	Personal Identity (Stanford, 2015)	33	15%	Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	Personal Identity and the Radiation Argument	7	Yes	Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	Precis of 'The Human Animal'	3	Yes	Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	Properties as parts of ordinary objects	20	6%	Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	Psychology and Personal Identity	15	Yes	Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	Relativism and Persistence	22	Yes	Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	Replies to Baker, Markosian & Zimmerman	11	Yes	Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	Reply to Lynne Rudder Baker	6	Yes	Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	Review of Dancy's 'Reading Parfit'	3		Paper
Olson (Eric)	Review of Hud Hudson's 'A Materialist Metaphysics of the Human Person'	4	Yes	Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	Review of Jack Wilson's 'Biological Individuality: The Identity and Persistence of Living Entities'	3		Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	Review of Lowe's 'The Possibility of Metaphysics'	3		Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	Review of Lynne Baker's 'Persons And Bodies'	3		Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	Review of P. Snowdon, Persons, Animals, Ourselves	3	Yes	Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	Review of Perry's 'Identity, Personal Identity, and the Self'	5	33%	Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	Review of 'Persons: Human and Divine'	4	Yes	Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	Review of Tye's 'Consciousness and Persons - Unity and Identity'	4	33%	Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	Self: Personal Identity	12	17%	Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	Swinburne’s Brain Transplants	9	22%	Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	Temporal Parts and Timeless Parthood	21		Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	The Biological Approach	30	Yes	Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	The Central Dogma Of Transhumanism	22	67%	Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	The Epicurean View of Death	21	6%	Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	The Extended Self	23	5%	Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	The Human Animal: Alternatives	15	Yes	Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	The Human Animal: Introduction	4	Yes	Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	The Human Animal: References	7	Yes	Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	The Metaphysical Implications of Conjoined Twining	15	17%	Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	The Nature of People	14	25%	Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	The Ontology of Material Objects	8		Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	The Paradox of Increase	27	4%	Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	The Passage of Time	11		Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	The Person and the Corpse	16	Yes	Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	The Rate of Time’s Passage	8		Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	The Remnant-Person Problem	17	33%	Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	The Role of the Brainstem in Personal Identity	9	22%	Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	The Zombies Among Us	13	8%	Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	There Is No Problem of the Self	14	Yes	Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	Thinking Animals and the Constitution View	8	Yes	Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	Thinking Animals and the Reference of 'I'	20	Yes	Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	Warum wir Tiere sind (Why we are animals)	12	Yes	Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	Was I Ever a Fetus?	16	Yes	Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	Was I Ever a Fetus? (Human Animal)	21	Yes	Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	Was I Ever a Fetus? ('New Version')	15	8%	Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	Was Jekyll Hyde?	21	Yes	Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	What Are We?	19	Yes	Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	What Are We? Animals	23	Yes	Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	What Are We? Brains	21	Yes	Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	What Are We? Bundles	29	Yes	Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	What Are We? Constitution	26	Yes	Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	What Are We? Contents + References	7	Yes	Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	What Are We? Nihilism	28	Yes	Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	What Are We? Souls	29	Yes	Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	What Are We? Temporal Parts	28	Yes	Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	What Are We? The Question	17	Yes	Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	What Are We? What Now?	25	Yes	Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	What Does Functionalism Tell Us About Personal Identity	17	13%	Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	What Does It Mean To Say That We Are Animals?	20	6%	Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	What is the Problem of Biological Individuality?	22	6%	Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	Why I Have No Hands	14	Yes	Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	Why Is Death Bad?	4	Yes	Paper Abstract
Olson (Eric)	Why We Need Not Accept the Psychological Approach	31	Yes	Paper Abstract

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