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Animalists

(Text as at 04/04/2015 00:17:17)

(For earlier versions of this Note, see the table at the end)

• Who is an animalist depends on who you ask. Some are self-proclaimed, and others are claimed to be so by others.
  • The following would definitely seem to be animalists:-
    1. Michael R. Ayers,
    2. Andrew M. Bailey,
    3. Stephan Blatti,
    4. William Carter,
    5. David Hershenov,
    6. David Mackie,
    7. Eric Olson,
    8. Paul Snowdon, and
    9. Richard Wollheim.
  • In addition,
    1. David Wiggins, and
    2. Bernard Williams
    are sometimes claimed (I think by Blatti).
  • Olson in "Olson (Eric) - What are We?" has Carter, Ayers and Snowdon; but also:-
    1. Joshua Hoffman and Gary Rosenkrantz,
    2. Trenton Merricks, and
    3. Peter Van Inwagen.
    Andrew Bailey (in "Bailey (Andrew M.) - The Elimination Argument") agrees that Merricks and van Inwagen are animalists.
  • Jens Johansson in "Johansson (Jens) - What is Animalism?" has Ayers, Carter, Mackie, Merricks, Olson, Snowdon, Van Inwagen, and Wiggins, but also:-
    
    1. John McDowell, and
    2. Derek Parfit.
• "Bourget (David) & Chalmers (David) - What Do Philosophers Believe?" has a question on Personal Identity, and it seems that only just under 17% of faculty at elite philosophy departments are even inclined towards animalism, with just under 6% being convinced. No recognised Animalist appears to have responded to the survey (or at least allowed their opinions to be published). I did, however, spot that my former supervisor – Jennifer Hornsby – claimed to be an animalist, though I don’t think she’s written anything on the subject.
  
• The key works (in my possession) by the major and alleged animalists include the following₁:-
  • Michael R. Ayers: I don’t have much. I suspect the following is all that is relevant:-
    1. "Ayers (Michael R.) - Neo-Lockean and Anti-Lockean Theories of Personal Identity in Analytic Philosophy"
  • Andrew M. Bailey
    1. "Bailey (Andrew M.) - The Elimination Argument".
  • Stephan Blatti
    "Blatti (Stephan) - A New Argument for Animalism"
    1. "Blatti (Stephan) - Animalism (Continuum)"
    2. "Blatti (Stephan) - Animalism and its Implications"
    3. "Blatti (Stephan) - Animalism and Personal Identity"
    4. "Blatti (Stephan) - Animalism Unburdened"
    5. "Blatti (Stephan) - Animalism, Dicephalus, and Borderline Cases"
  • William Carter
    1. "Carter (William) - Death and Bodily Transfiguration"
    2. "Carter (William) - Do Zygotes Become People?"
    3. "Carter (William) - Once and Future Persons"
    4. "Carter (William) - Our Bodies, Our Selves"
    5. "Jones (Nicholas K.) - Too Many Cats: The Problem of the Many and the Metaphysics of Vagueness"
    6. "Carter (William) - Personal Identity"
    7. "Carter (William) - Plantinga on Disembodied Existence"
    8. W. R. Carter, ‘Why Personal Identity is Animal Identity,’ Logos₂, 11 (1990), pp. 71–81
    9. "Carter (William) - Will I Be a Dead Person?"
  • David Hershenov
    1. "Hershenov (David) - Countering the Appeal of the Psychological Approach to Personal Identity"
    2. "Hershenov (David) - Do Dead Bodies Pose a Problem for Biological Approaches to Personal Identity"
    3. "Hershenov (David) - Olson's Embryo Problem"
    4. "Hershenov (David) - The Death of a Person"
    5. "Hershenov (David) - The Problematic Role of ‘Irreversibility’ in the Definition of Death"
    6. "Hershenov (David) - Van Inwagen, Zimmerman, and the Materialist Conception of Resurrection"
  • Joshua Hoffman and Gary Rosenkrantz
    1. "Hoffman (Joshua) & Rosenkrantz (Gary) - Substance: Its Nature and Existence", with
    2. "Hoffman (Joshua) & Rosenkrantz (Gary) - On the Unity of the Parts of Organisms" looking particularly useful to me.
  • David Mackie
    1. "Mackie (David) - Animalism Versus Lockeanism: No Contest",
    2. "Mackie (David) - Going Topless"
    3. "Mackie (David) - Personal Identity and Dead People".
  • John McDowell
    1. "McDowell (John) - Reductionism and the First Person".
  • Trenton Merricks
    1. "Merricks (Trenton) - How to Live Forever Without Saving Your Soul: Physicalism and Immortality", and
    2. "Merricks (Trenton) - Objects and Persons"
  • Eric Olson has his own Note³, wherein I list his important works on Animalism.
  • Paul Snowdon
    1. "Snowdon (Paul) - Personal Identity (Lectures 1 - 4)"
    2. "Snowdon (Paul) - Personal Identity and Brain Transplants"
    3. "Snowdon (Paul) - Persons and Personal Identity"
    4. "Snowdon (Paul) - Persons, Animals, and Bodies"
    5. "Snowdon (Paul) - Persons, Animals, and Ourselves"
    6. "Snowdon (Paul) - Some Objections to Animalism"
  • Peter Van Inwagen
    1. "Van Inwagen (Peter) - Material Beings"
  • David Wiggins
    1. "Wiggins (David) - Identity & Spatio-temporal Continuity"
    2. "Wiggins (David) - Sameness and Substance", especially
    3. "Wiggins (David) - Personal Identity (S&S)"
    4. "Wiggins (David) - Sameness and Substance Renewed", especially
    5. "Wiggins (David) - Personal Identity"
    6. "Wiggins (David) - Locke, Butler and the Stream of Consciousness: And Men as Natural Kind"
    7. "Wiggins (David) - Reply To Shoemaker"
    8. "Wiggins (David) - Reply To Shoemaker's Reply"
    9. "Wiggins (David) - Reply to Snowdon (Persons and Personal Identity)"
    10. "Wiggins (David) - The Concern to Survive"
    11. "Wiggins (David) - The Person as Object of Science, as Subject of Experience, and as Locus of Value"
    12. "Wiggins (David) - On Being in the Same Place at the Same Time"
  • Bernard Williams
    1. "Williams (Bernard) - Are Persons Bodies?"
    2. "Williams (Bernard) - Bodily Continuity and Personal Identity"
    3. "Williams (Bernard) - Identity and Identities"
    4. "Williams (Bernard) - Personal Identity and Individuation"
    5. "Williams (Bernard) - Persons, Character and Morality"
    6. "Williams (Bernard) - The Self and the Future"
  • Richard Wollheim: Possibly only:-
    1. "Wollheim (Richard) - Living"

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In-Page Footnotes:

Footnote 1: The full list of their works in my possession can be found by following the hyperlink from their name.

Footnote 2: Unfortunately, I have not been able to obtain this paper. It is recommended by Johansson (and maybe others).

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Table of the Previous 4 Versions of this Note:

Date	Length	Title
26/03/2014 19:09:07	2647	Animalists
18/08/2009 20:39:50	1669	Animalists
26/11/2007 23:25:26	523	Animalists
12/08/2007 10:17:46	536	Animalists

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Note last updated	Reading List for this Topic	Parent Topic
04/04/2015 00:17:17	None available	Animalism

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Summary of Note Links from this Page

Olson

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Summary of Note Links to this Page

Animalism	Animals	Blackburn - Has Kant Refuted Parfit?	Bodily Continuity	Brain Criterion
Essentialism	Human Beings	Johnston - Human Beings	Olson	Snowdon - The Self and Personal Identity
Thesis - Chapter 06 (Animalism and Arguments for It)	Thesis - Current Stance

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Authors, Books & Papers Citing this Note

Author	Title	Medium	Extra Links	Read?
Bailey (Andrew M.)	N/A	Author
Blackburn (Simon)	Has Kant Refuted Parfit?	Paper
Hershenov (David)	N/A	Author
Johansson (Jens)	What is Animalism?	Paper		Yes
Johnston (Mark)	Human Beings	Paper		Yes
Johnston (Mark)	Is Heaven a Place We Can Get To?	Paper
Kazez (Jean)	The Philosophical Parent: Asking the Hard Questions About Having and Raising Children	Paper
Liao (S. Matthew)	The Organism View Defended	Paper		Yes
Olson (Eric)	Psychology and Personal Identity	Paper		Yes
Smith (Barry C.), Broks (Paul), Kennedy (A.L.) & Evans (Jules)	What Does It Mean to Be Me?	Paper		Yes
Snowdon (Paul)	The Self and Personal Identity	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Animalism	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Animalists	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Animals	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Bodily Continuity	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Brain Criterion	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Current Position	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Essentialism	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Human Beings	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Olson	Paper		Yes

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References & Reading List

Author	Title	Medium	Source	Read?
Ayers (Michael R.)	Locke (Vol 2 - Ontology)	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	25%
Ayers (Michael R.)	Neo-Lockean and Anti-Lockean Theories of Personal Identity in Analytic Philosophy	Paper - Cited	Ayers - Locke (Vol. 2 - Ontology), 1991, Chapter 25, pp. 278-292	Yes
Bailey (Andrew M.)	The Elimination Argument	Paper - Cited	Philosophical Studies 168 (2014): 475-482	44%
Bermudez (Jose Luis), Marcel (Anthony) & Eilan (Naomi), Eds.	The Body and the Self	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	6%
Blackburn (Simon)	Has Kant Refuted Parfit?	Paper - Referencing	Dancy - Reading Parfit, 1997, Chapter 9	67%
Blatti (Stephan)	A New Argument for Animalism	Paper - Cited	Analysis Vol 72, Number 4, October 2012, pp. 685–690	No
Blatti (Stephan)	Animalism (Continuum)	Paper - Cited	The Continuum Encyclopedia of British Philosophy, ed. A. C. Grayling, A. Pyle, N. Goulder (Continuum, 2006), vol. 1: 108–09	Yes
Blatti (Stephan)	Animalism and its Implications	Paper - Cited	OU Website (now deleted)	Yes
Blatti (Stephan)	Animalism and Personal Identity	Paper - Cited	Encyclopedia of Human-Animal Relationships, ed. M. Bekoff (Greenwood Press, 2007), 430-33	Yes
Blatti (Stephan)	Animalism Unburdened	Paper - Cited	OU Website (now deleted)	Yes
Blatti (Stephan)	Animalism, Dicephalus, and Borderline Cases	Paper - Cited	Philosophical Psychology 20 (2007): 595–608	Yes
Bourget (David) & Chalmers (David)	What Do Philosophers Believe?	Paper - Cited	PhilPapers Surveys, November 30, 2013	Yes
Carter (William)	Do Zygotes Become People?	Paper - Cited	Mind, 91.361 (Jan. 1982), pp. 77-95	Yes
Carter (William)	Once and Future Persons	Paper - Cited	American Philosophical Quarterly, 17, Jan. 1980, pp. 61-66	No
Carter (William)	Our Bodies, Our Selves	Paper - Cited	Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 66 No. 3,1988, 308-319	Yes
Carter (William)	Personal Identity	Paper - Cited	Carter - The Elements of Metaphysics, 1990, Chapter 7	No
Carter (William)	Plantinga on Disembodied Existence	Paper - Cited	Philosophical Review 81, No. 3, Jul., 1972, pp. 360-363, pp. 360-363	No
Carter (William)	The Elements of Metaphysics	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	No
Carter (William)	Will I Be a Dead Person?	Paper - Cited	Philosophy and Phenomenological Research Mar99, Vol. 59 Issue 1, p167, 5p;	Yes
Cockburn (David), Ed.	Human Beings	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	11%
Dancy (Jonathan), Ed.	Reading Parfit	Book - Referencing (via Paper Referencing)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	23%
Gill (Christopher)	The Person and the Human Mind: issues in ancient and modern philosophy	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	5%
Harris (Henry)	Identity - Essays Based on Herbert Spencer Lectures Given in the University of Oxford	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	No
Hershenov (David)	Countering the Appeal of the Psychological Approach to Personal Identity	Paper - Cited	Philosophy - 79, Jul2004, Issue 309, p447-474, 28p;	Yes
Hershenov (David)	Do Dead Bodies Pose a Problem for Biological Approaches to Personal Identity	Paper - Cited	Mind, 114, Number 453, 1 January 2005, pp. 31-59(29).	Yes
Hershenov (David)	Olson's Embryo Problem	Paper - Cited	Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 80, Number 4, December 01, 2002, pp. 502-511(10)	No
Hershenov (David)	The Death of a Person	Paper - Cited	Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, Apr. 2006, 31.2, pp. 107-120	No
Hershenov (David)	The Problematic Role of ‘Irreversibility’ in the Definition of Death	Paper - Cited	Bioethics, 17.1, Feb2003, pp. 89-100, 12p	No
Hershenov (David)	Van Inwagen, Zimmerman, and the Materialist Conception of Resurrection	Paper - Cited	Religious Studies, 38 pp. 1-19 (December 2002)	17%
Hoffman (Joshua) & Rosenkrantz (Gary)	On the Unity of the Parts of Organisms	Paper - Cited	Hoffman & Rosenkrantz - Substance: Its Nature and Existence, Chapter 4	No
Hoffman (Joshua) & Rosenkrantz (Gary)	Substance: Its Nature and Existence	Book - Cited	Hoffman (Joshua) & Rosenkrantz (Gary) - Substance: Its Nature and Existence	No
Johnston (Mark)	Human Beings	Paper - Referencing	Journal of Philosophy, Volume 84, Issue 2 (Feb 1987), 59-83	Yes
Jones (Nicholas K.)	Too Many Cats: The Problem of the Many and the Metaphysics of Vagueness	Paper - Cited	Ph.D. Dissertation, Birkbeck College, University of London, 2010	No
Kazez (Jean)	The Philosophical Parent: Asking the Hard Questions About Having and Raising Children	Book - Referencing (via Paper Referencing)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	32%
Kazez (Jean)	The Philosophical Parent: Asking the Hard Questions About Having and Raising Children	Paper - Referencing	Kazez (Jean) - The Philosophical Parent: Asking the Hard Questions About Having and Raising Children	47%
Lovibond (Sabina) & Williams (S.G.)	Identity, Truth & Value: Essays for David Wiggins	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	11%
Mackie (David)	Going Topless	Paper - Cited	Ratio 11.2, Sep1998, p125, 16p	Yes
Mackie (David)	Personal Identity and Dead People	Paper - Cited	Philosophical Studies 95, Number 3, September 1999, pp. 219-242(24).	Yes
Martin (Michael G.F.), Ed.	Mind - 114/453 (January 2005)	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	11%
Merricks (Trenton)	Objects and Persons	Book - Cited	Merricks (Trenton) - Objects and Persons	10%
O'Hear (Anthony), Ed.	Philosophy - 79/309 (July 2004)	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	24%
Olson (Eric)	What are We?	Book - Cited	Olson (Eric) - What are We?	57%
Peacocke (Arthur) & Gillett (Grant)	Persons and Personality: A Contemporary Inquiry	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	21%
Petrus (Klaus), Ed.	On Human Persons	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	98%
Rea (Michael), Ed.	Material Constitution - A Reader	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	53%
Rorty (Amelie), Ed.	The Identities of Persons	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	33%
Snowdon (Paul)	Personal Identity (Lectures 1 - 4)	Paper - Cited	2005? Lecture handouts	Yes
Snowdon (Paul)	Personal Identity and Brain Transplants	Paper - Cited	Cockburn - Human Beings, 1991	Yes
Snowdon (Paul)	Persons and Personal Identity	Paper - Cited	Lovibond & Williams - Identity, Truth & Value: Essays for David Wiggins, 1996	Yes
Snowdon (Paul)	Persons, Animals, and Bodies	Paper - Cited	Bermudez, Marcel & Eilan - The Body and the Self, 1995	Yes
Snowdon (Paul)	Persons, Animals, and Ourselves	Paper - Cited	Christopher Gill, Ed, The Person and the Human Mind, 1990	Yes
Snowdon (Paul)	Some Objections to Animalism	Paper - Cited	Petrus - On Human Persons, 2003	Yes
Van Inwagen (Peter)	Material Beings	Book - Cited	Van Inwagen (Peter) - Material Beings	40%
Wiggins (David)	Identity & Spatio-temporal Continuity	Book - Cited	Wiggins (David) - Identity & Spatio-temporal Continuity	8%
Wiggins (David)	Locke, Butler and the Stream of Consciousness: And Men as Natural Kind	Paper - Cited	Philosophy, Vol. 51, No. 196 (Apr., 1976), pp. 131-158	Yes
Wiggins (David)	Needs, Values, Truth: Essays in the Philosophy of Value	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	3%
Wiggins (David)	On Being in the Same Place at the Same Time	Paper - Cited	Rea - Material Constitution - A Reader	Yes
Wiggins (David)	Personal Identity	Paper - Cited	Wiggins - Sameness and Substance Renewed, 2001, Chapter 7	64%
Wiggins (David)	Personal Identity (S&S)	Paper - Cited	Wiggins - Sameness and Substance, 1980, Chapter 6	No
Wiggins (David)	Reply To Shoemaker	Paper - Cited	Monist, Oct2004, Vol. 87 Issue 4, p594-609, 16p;	No
Wiggins (David)	Reply To Shoemaker's Reply	Paper - Cited	Monist, Oct2004, Vol. 87 Issue 4, p614-615, 2p;	No
Wiggins (David)	Reply to Snowdon (Persons and Personal Identity)	Paper - Cited	Lovibond & Williams - Identity, Truth & Value: Essays for David Wiggins, 1996	Yes
Wiggins (David)	Sameness and Substance	Book - Cited	Wiggins (David) - Sameness and Substance	11%
Wiggins (David)	Sameness and Substance Renewed	Book - Cited	Wiggins (David) - Sameness and Substance Renewed	16%
Wiggins (David)	The Concern to Survive	Paper - Cited	Midwest Studies in Philosophy, Vol. IV, 1979	Yes
Wiggins (David)	The Person as Object of Science, as Subject of Experience, and as Locus of Value	Paper - Cited	Peacocke & Gillett - Persons and Personality: A Contemporary Inquiry, 1987, Chapter 4	Yes
Williams (Bernard)	Are Persons Bodies?	Paper - Cited	Williams - Problems of the Self (1970)	Yes
Williams (Bernard)	Bodily Continuity and Personal Identity	Paper - Cited	Williams - Problems of the Self (Analysis XXI, 1960)	Yes
Williams (Bernard)	Identity and Identities	Paper - Cited	Harris - Identity - Essays Based on Herbert Spencer Lectures Given in the University of Oxford	No
Williams (Bernard)	Personal Identity and Individuation	Paper - Cited	Williams - Problems of the Self	50%
Williams (Bernard)	Persons, Character and Morality	Paper - Cited	Rorty (Amelie) - The Identities of Persons, 1976	Yes
Williams (Bernard)	Problems of the Self	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	55%
Williams (Bernard)	The Self and the Future	Paper - Cited	Williams - Problems of the Self	Yes
Zimmerman (Dean) & Gendler (Tamar Szabo), Eds.	Monist Special Issue: Personal Identity	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	9%

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