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Personal Identity
Animalists
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Plug Note1
- Thesis Text:
- 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:-
- Michael R. Ayers,
- Andrew M. Bailey,
- Stephan Blatti,
- William Carter,
- David Hershenov,
- David Mackie,
- Eric Olson,
- Paul Snowdon,
- Peter Van Inwagen, and2
- Richard Wollheim.
- In addition,
- David Wiggins, and
- Bernard Williams
are sometimes claimed (I think by Stephan Blatti).
- Olson in "Olson (Eric) - What are We? A Study of Personal Ontology" has Carter, Ayers, van Inwagen and Snowdon; but also:-
- Joshua Hoffman and Gary Rosenkrantz, and
- Trenton Merricks.
- However, in "Olson (Eric) - Psychology and Personal Identity", Olson claims that – contrary to appearances – David Wiggins and Jay Rosenberg are supporters of the PV3.
- "Bailey (Andrew M.) - The Elimination Argument" agrees that Merricks and van Inwagen are animalists.
- "Johansson (Jens) - What is Animalism?" has Ayers, Carter, Mackie, Merricks, Olson, Snowdon, Van Inwagen, and Wiggins, but also:-
- John McDowell, and
- Derek Parfit.
- It is likely that many atheist or agnostic philosophers who don’t specifically treat of personal identity are animalists. "Quinn (Philip L.) - Review of Antony Flew's 'The Logic of Mortality'" seems to describe Antony Flew as such, though Quinn doesn’t use the term “animalist”.
- "Bourget (David) & Chalmers (David) - The PhilPapers Surveys: 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.
Further Remarks
- This Note is intended to list those philosophers who might be categorised as animalists, together with their major works on the topic.
- On reflection, the latter idea might be a mistake, as these works will be covered under the Notes on:-
- Eric Olson has his own Note6, wherein I list his important works on Animalism.
References
- Relevant Works cited above: No items to list.
- For a page of Links7 to this Note, Click here.
- The key works (in my possession) by the major and alleged animalists that I’ve actually read8, include the following9:-
- Michael R. Ayers:
- "Ayers (Michael R.) - Neo-Lockean and Anti-Lockean Theories of Personal Identity in Analytic Philosophy", 1991, Annotations
- Stephan Blatti:
- "Blatti (Stephan) - Animalism (Continuum)", 2006, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Blatti (Stephan) - Animalism and its Implications", 2005, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Blatti (Stephan) - Animalism and Personal Identity", 2007, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Blatti (Stephan) - Animalism Unburdened", 2005, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Blatti (Stephan) - Animalism, Dicephalus, and Borderline Cases", 2007, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- William Carter:
- "Carter (William) - Death and Bodily Transfiguration", 1984, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Carter (William) - Do Zygotes Become People?", 1982, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Carter (William) - Our Bodies, Our Selves", 1988, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Carter (William) - Will I Be a Dead Person?", 1999, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- David Hershenov:
- "Hershenov (David) - Countering the Appeal of the Psychological Approach to Personal Identity", 2004, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Hershenov (David) - Do Dead Bodies Pose a Problem for Biological Approaches to Personal Identity", 2005, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- David Mackie:
- "Mackie (David) - Animalism Versus Lockeanism: No Contest", 1999, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Mackie (David) - Going Topless", 1998, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Mackie (David) - Personal Identity and Dead People", 1999, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- John McDowell:
- "McDowell (John) - Reductionism and the First Person", 1997, Annotations
- Paul Snowdon:
- "Snowdon (Paul) - Personal Identity (Lectures 1 - 4)", 2005?, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Snowdon (Paul) - Personal Identity and Brain Transplants", 1991, Annotations
- "Snowdon (Paul) - Persons and Personal Identity", 1996, Annotations
- "Snowdon (Paul) - Persons, Animals, and Bodies", 1995, Annotations
- "Snowdon (Paul) - Persons, Animals, and Ourselves", 1990, Annotations
- "Snowdon (Paul) - Some Objections to Animalism", 2003
- Peter Van Inwagen:
- "Van Inwagen (Peter) - Materialism and the Psychological-continuity Account of Personal Identity", 1994, Internal PDF Link, Footnote10
- David Wiggins:
- "Wiggins (David) - Locke, Butler and the Stream of Consciousness: And Men as Natural Kind", 1976, Internal PDF Link
- "Wiggins (David) - On Being in the Same Place at the Same Time", 1968, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Wiggins (David) - Reply to Snowdon (Persons and Personal Identity)", 1996, No Abstract
- "Wiggins (David) - The Concern to Survive", 1987, Annotations
- "Wiggins (David) - The Person as Object of Science, as Subject of Experience, and as Locus of Value", 1987, Annotations
- Bernard Williams:
- "Williams (Bernard) - Are Persons Bodies?", 1970, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Williams (Bernard) - Bodily Continuity and Personal Identity", 1960, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Williams (Bernard) - Persons, Character and Morality", 1976
- "Williams (Bernard) - The Self and the Future", 1999, Write-Up Note11, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- Richard Wollheim:
- "Wollheim (Richard) - Living", 1984, Annotations, No Abstract
- General:
- "Olson (Eric) - The Human Animal - Personal Identity Without Psychology", Book
- "Wilson (Jack) - Biological Individuality - The identity and Persistence of Living Entities", 1999, Book
- A further reading list might start with:-
- Andrew M. Bailey:
- "Bailey (Andrew M.) - The Elimination Argument", 2014, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 67%
- Stephan Blatti:
- "Blatti (Stephan) - A New Argument for Animalism", 2012, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 67%
- William Carter:
- "Carter (William) - Once and Future Persons", 1980, Internal PDF Link, Read = 50%
- "Carter (William) - Personal Identity", 1990
- "Carter (William) - Plantinga on Disembodied Existence", 1972, Internal PDF Link
- David Hershenov:
- "Hershenov (David) - Olson's Embryo Problem", 2002, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Hershenov (David) - The Death of a Person", 2006, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Hershenov (David) - The Problematic Role of ‘Irreversibility’ in the Definition of Death", 2003, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Hershenov (David) - Van Inwagen, Zimmerman, and the Materialist Conception of Resurrection", 2002, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 11%
- Joshua Hoffman & Gary Rosenkrantz:
- "Hoffman (Joshua) & Rosenkrantz (Gary) - On the Unity of the Parts of Organisms", 1997, Footnote12
- "Hoffman (Joshua) & Rosenkrantz (Gary) - Substance: Its Nature and Existence", 1997, Book
- Trenton Merricks:
- "Merricks (Trenton) - How to Live Forever Without Saving Your Soul: Physicalism and Immortality", 2001
- "Merricks (Trenton) - Objects and Persons", 2001, Book, Read = 7%
- Peter Van Inwagen:
- "Van Inwagen (Peter) - Material Beings", 1995, Book, Read = 27%
- David Wiggins:
- "Wiggins (David) - Identity & Spatio-temporal Continuity", 1967, Book, Read = 5%
- "Wiggins (David) - Personal Identity", 2001, Read = 43%
- "Wiggins (David) - Personal Identity (S&S)", 1980
- "Wiggins (David) - Reply To Shoemaker", 2004, Internal PDF Link
- "Wiggins (David) - Reply To Shoemaker's Reply", 2004, Internal PDF Link
- "Wiggins (David) - Sameness and Substance", 1980, Book, Read = 11%
- "Wiggins (David) - Sameness and Substance Renewed", 2001, Book, Read = 16%
- Bernard Williams:
- "Williams (Bernard) - Identity and Identities", 1995, Read = 8%
- "Williams (Bernard) - Personal Identity and Individuation", 1957, Internal PDF Link, Read = 33%
- For a list of Works that have been considered, but have missed the cut for inclusion in this Section of my Thesis, see the following:-
- Read: No items to list.
- Further Reading: No items to list.
- This is mostly a place-holder13.
In-Page Footnotes:
Footnote 2:
- The evidence for this – by way of self-confession – is in "Van Inwagen (Peter) - Materialism and the Psychological-continuity Account of Personal Identity".
Footnote 9:
- The full list of their works in my possession can be found by following the hyperlink from their name.
Footnote 10:
- The burden of this paper is to reject body transfer, but PVI claims to be an animalist therein.
Footnote 12:
- This, from the book below, looks particularly useful.
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Animalism |
Summary of Notes Referenced by This Note
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Summary of Notes Citing This Note
Animalism |
Animals |
Blackburn - Has Kant Refuted Parfit? |
Bodily Continuity |
Brain Criterion |
Essentialism |
Existential Passage |
Human Animals |
Human Beings |
Johnston - Human Beings |
Noonan - Persons and Bodies - Response |
Olson |
Olson - What Are We? Animals, 2 |
Olson - What Are We? The Question, 2 |
PID Note, Book & Paper Usage, 2, 3, 4 |
Psychological Continuity |
Snowdon - The Self and Personal Identity |
Taking Persons Seriously |
Thesis - Chapter 02 (What are We?), 2, 3 |
Thesis - Chapter 03 (What is a Person?) |
Thesis - Chapter 06 (Animalism and Arguments for It), 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 |
Thesis - Chapter 07 (The Constitution View and Arguments for It) |
Thesis - Chapter 10 (Thought Experiments) |
Thesis - Current Stance |
Transplants |
Website - Progress to Date (2023 - September), 2 |
Website Generator Documentation - Functors, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
Wiggins |
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Authors, Books & Papers Citing this Note
Author |
Title |
Medium |
Extra Links |
Read? |
Bailey (Andrew M.) |
N/A |
Author |
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Belshaw (Christopher) |
Review of Paul Snowdon's 'Persons, Animals, Ourselves' |
Paper  |
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Yes |
Berglund (Stefan) |
Human and Personal Identity: Summary & Bibliography |
Paper  |
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Blackburn (Simon) |
Has Kant Refuted Parfit? |
Paper  |
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Blatti (Stephan) |
Animalism (Continuum) |
Paper  |
|
Yes |
Blatti (Stephan) |
Headhunters |
Paper  |
2 |
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Blatti (Stephan) |
Review of 'The Rise and Fall of Soul and Self', by Raymond Martin and John Barresi |
Paper  |
2 |
Yes |
Blatti (Stephan) |
We Are Animals |
Paper  |
|
Yes |
Blatti (Stephan) & Snowdon (Paul), Eds. |
Animalism: Introduction |
Paper  |
2 |
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Blatti (Stephan), Ed. |
The Lives of Human Animals |
Paper  |
2 |
Yes |
Dainton (Barry) |
Self: Philosophy In Transit: Prologue |
Paper  |
|
Yes |
Dennett (Daniel) |
Where Am I? |
Paper  |
2 |
Yes |
Garrett (Brian) |
The Story of I: Some Comments on L.R.Baker 'Persons & Bodies' |
Paper  |
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Yes |
Gasser (Georg) |
Personal Identity and Resurrection: Introduction |
Paper  |
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Yes |
Hershenov (David) |
N/A |
Author  |
2 |
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Hershenov (David) |
Are There Too Many Hylomorphic Individuals Thinking about this Life and the Next? |
Paper  |
2 |
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Hershenov (David) |
Who Doesn't Have a Problem of Too Many Thinkers? |
Paper  |
2 |
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Johansson (Jens) |
Animal Ethics |
Paper  |
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Johansson (Jens) |
What is Animalism? |
Paper  |
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Yes |
Johnston (Mark) |
Human Beings |
Paper  |
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Yes |
Johnston (Mark) |
Is Heaven a Place We Can Get To? |
Paper  |
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Johnston (Mark) |
Remnant Persons: Animalism's Undoing |
Paper  |
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Kazez (Jean) |
The Philosophical Parent: Asking the Hard Questions About Having and Raising Children |
Paper  |
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Yes |
Kingma (Elselijn) |
Were You Part of Your Mother? |
Paper  |
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Yes |
Liao (S. Matthew) |
The Organism View Defended |
Paper  |
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Yes |
Lockwood (Michael) |
When Does a Life Begin? |
Paper  |
2 |
Yes |
Mackie (David) |
Personal Identity and Dead People |
Paper  |
|
Yes |
Madden (Rory) |
Thinking Parts |
Paper  |
2, 3 |
|
Marshall (Richard) & Olson (Eric) |
Eric T. Olson: The Philosopher with No Hands |
Paper  |
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Yes |
Moran (Alexander P.) |
Animalism and the Thinking Parts Problem |
Paper  |
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Noonan (Harold) |
Arguments Against Animalism: Comments on L.R.Baker 'Persons & Bodies' |
Paper  |
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Yes |
Olson (Eric) |
Animalism and the Remnant-Person Problem |
Paper  |
2 |
Yes |
Olson (Eric) |
Psychology and Personal Identity |
Paper  |
|
Yes |
Olson (Eric) |
Review of P. Snowdon, Persons, Animals, Ourselves |
Paper  |
2 |
Yes |
Olson (Eric) |
The Human Animal: Introduction |
Paper  |
2 |
Yes |
Olson (Eric) |
The Remnant-Person Problem |
Paper  |
2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 |
|
Olson (Eric) |
What Are We? Animals |
Paper  |
2 |
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Olson (Eric) |
What Are We? The Question |
Paper  |
2 |
Yes |
Olson (Eric) |
What Are We? What Now? |
Paper  |
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Parfit (Derek) |
We Are Not Human Beings |
Paper  |
2 |
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Petrus (Klaus), Ed. |
On Human Persons |
Book  |
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Puhl (Klaus) |
Review of Klaus Petrus's 'On Human Persons' |
Paper  |
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Quinn (Philip L.) |
Review of Antony Flew's 'The Logic of Mortality' |
Paper  |
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Yes |
Reid (Mark D.) |
A Case in Which Two Persons Exist in One Animal |
Paper  |
2, 3, 4 |
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Shoemaker (David) |
Personal Identity and Ethics - Introduction |
Paper  |
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Yes |
Shoemaker (David) |
Personal Identity and Immortality |
Paper  |
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Yes |
Smith (Barry C.), Broks (Paul), Kennedy (A.L.) & Evans (Jules) |
Audio: What Does It Mean to Be Me? |
Paper  |
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Yes |
Snowdon (Paul) |
Animalism and the Unity of Consciousness |
Paper  |
2, 3 |
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Snowdon (Paul) |
Philosophy and the Mind/Body Problem |
Paper  |
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Yes |
Snowdon (Paul) |
The Self and Personal Identity |
Paper  |
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Yes |
Todman (Theo) |
Thesis - Animalism |
Paper  |
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Yes |
Todman (Theo) |
Thesis - Animals |
Paper  |
|
Yes |
Todman (Theo) |
Thesis - Bodily Continuity |
Paper  |
|
Yes |
Todman (Theo) |
Thesis - Brain Criterion |
Paper  |
|
Yes |
Todman (Theo) |
Thesis - Chapter 02 (What Are We?) |
Paper  |
2, 3 |
Yes |
Todman (Theo) |
Thesis - Chapter 03 (What is a Person?) |
Paper  |
|
Yes |
Todman (Theo) |
Thesis - Chapter 06 (Animalism and Arguments for It) |
Paper  |
2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 |
Yes |
Todman (Theo) |
Thesis - Chapter 07 (The Constitution View and Arguments for It) |
Paper  |
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Yes |
Todman (Theo) |
Thesis - Chapter 10 (Thought Experiments) |
Paper  |
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Yes |
Todman (Theo) |
Thesis - Current Position |
Paper  |
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Yes |
Todman (Theo) |
Thesis - Essentialism |
Paper  |
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Yes |
Todman (Theo) |
Thesis - Human Animals |
Paper  |
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Yes |
Todman (Theo) |
Thesis - Human Beings |
Paper  |
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Yes |
Todman (Theo) |
Thesis - Olson |
Paper  |
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Yes |
Todman (Theo) |
Thesis - Psychological Continuity |
Paper  |
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Yes |
Todman (Theo) |
Thesis - Taking Persons Seriously |
Paper  |
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Yes |
Todman (Theo) |
Thesis - Transplants |
Paper  |
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Yes |
Todman (Theo) |
Thesis - Wiggins |
Paper  |
|
Yes |
Tooley (Michael) |
Abortion |
Paper  |
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Van Inwagen (Peter) |
Dualism and Materialism: Athens and Jerusalem? |
Paper  |
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Yes |
Van Inwagen (Peter) |
Materialism and the Psychological-continuity Account of Personal Identity |
Paper  |
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Yes |
Van Inwagen (Peter) |
Plantinga’s Replacement Argument |
Paper  |
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Yes |
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 |
23% |
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 |
56% |
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) |
The PhilPapers Surveys: What Do Philosophers Believe? |
Paper - Cited  |
Philosophical Studies: Vol. 170, No. 3 (September 2014), pp. 465-500 |
Yes |
Carter (William) |
Death and Bodily Transfiguration |
Paper - Cited  |
Mind, 1984, 412-418 |
Yes |
Carter (William) |
Do Zygotes Become People? |
Paper - Cited  |
Mind, 91.361 (Jan. 1982), pp. 77-95 |
Yes |
Carter (William) |
Our Bodies, Our Selves |
Paper - Cited  |
Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 66 No. 3,1988, 308-319 |
Yes |
Carter (William) |
Will I Be a Dead Person? |
Paper - Cited  |
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research Mar99, Vol. 59 Issue 1, p167, 5p; |
Yes |
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 |
Hoffman (Joshua) & Rosenkrantz (Gary) |
Substance: Its Nature and Existence |
Book - Cited  |
Hoffman (Joshua) & Rosenkrantz (Gary) - Substance: Its Nature and Existence |
No |
Johansson (Jens) |
What is Animalism? |
Paper - Cited  |
Ratio, Volume 20, Issue 2, June 2007, pp. 194–205 |
Yes |
Mackie (David) |
Animalism Versus Lockeanism: No Contest |
Paper - Cited  |
Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 49, Number 196, July 1999, pp. 369-376(8). |
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 |
7% |
O'Hear (Anthony), Ed. |
Philosophy - 79/309 (July 2004) |
Book - Cited (via Paper Cited) |
Bibliographical details to be supplied |
24% |
Olson (Eric) |
Psychology and Personal Identity |
Paper - Cited  |
The Human Animal, September 1999, Chapter 1, pp. 7-21 |
Yes |
Olson (Eric) |
The Human Animal - Personal Identity Without Psychology |
Book - Cited  |
Olson (Eric) - The Human Animal - Personal Identity Without Psychology |
Yes |
Olson (Eric) |
What are We? A Study of Personal Ontology |
Book - Cited  |
Olson (Eric) - What are We? A Study of Personal Ontology |
99% |
Olson (Eric) |
What Are We? Animals |
Paper - Referencing  |
What Are We? A Study in Personal Ontology, Chapter 2 (November 2007: Oxford University Press.) |
81% |
Olson (Eric) |
What Are We? The Question |
Paper - Referencing  |
What Are We? A Study in Personal Ontology, Chapter 1 (November 2007: Oxford University Press.) |
Yes |
Quinn (Philip L.) |
Review of Antony Flew's 'The Logic of Mortality' |
Paper - Cited  |
Nous, Vol. 26, No. 1, Mar., 1992, pp. 102-104 |
Yes |
Van Inwagen (Peter) |
Material Beings |
Book - Cited  |
Van Inwagen (Peter) - Material Beings |
27% |
Van Inwagen (Peter) |
Materialism and the Psychological-continuity Account of Personal Identity |
Paper - Cited  |
Van Inwagen - Ontology, Identity and Modality, Part II: Identity, Chapter 9, 1997 |
Yes |
Van Inwagen (Peter) |
Ontology, Identity and Modality: Essays in metaphysics |
Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)  |
Bibliographical details to be supplied |
17% |
Wiggins (David) |
Identity & Spatio-temporal Continuity |
Book - Cited  |
Wiggins (David) - Identity & Spatio-temporal Continuity |
5% |
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% |
Wilson (Jack) |
Biological Individuality - The identity and Persistence of Living Entities |
Book - Cited  |
Wilson (Jack) - Biological Individuality - The identity and Persistence of Living Entities |
Yes |
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