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Personal Identity

Olson

(Text as at 06/07/2023 00:43:12)

Plug Note¹

• Thesis Text:
  1. Eric Olson is important as the most vigorous contemporary defender of the Animalist² position.
  2. Animalism is in opposition to the various other views on Personal Identity that give prominence to our psychology³.
  3. My thesis will focus on the tension between these two views – in particular contrasting Animalism with the Constitution View⁴ of Lynne Rudder Baker (for Baker, see also this Note⁵) for which Olson has a particular antipathy.
  4. Rather than repeat Olson’s arguments here, maybe inconsistently with what I’ve written elsewhere, here I simply list Olson’s arguments in favour of Animalism, and against the alternatives, with links to further discussion.
  5. I also list all Olson’s books and papers on the subject, together with those by other authors specifically attacking or defending Olson’s views. This will enable a quick cross-reference to ensure all these papers are addressed – or explicitly ignored – in the various sub-topics that deal with their subject-matter.
  6. So, arguments and issues to be considered include:-
     1. The Thinking Animal Argument⁶,
     2. The Brain Transplant⁷ Intuition – Rejected!
     3. The Corpse⁸ Problem
     4. The Fetus⁹ Problem
        

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  Further Remarks:
  1. Follow this link¹⁰ for other prominent animalists – together with their major works on the topic.
  2. The categorised reading-list below only lists those books and papers by or about Olson relevant to the topic of my Thesis.
  3. The reading list that accompanies Eric Olson contains all the papers by Eric Olson in my possession, whether or not they are relevant to the topic of personal identity.
  4. The pseudo-book "Olson (Eric) - Papers on Identity Boxes: Vol 13 (Olson)" contains those papers by Olson of which I have print-outs or photocopies. Despite its title, not all of these may be strictly to do with personal identity.

References

• Relevant Works cited above: No items to list.
• For a Page of Links¹¹ to this Note, Click here. Too many false positives for an updating run. I’ve not yet gleaned it thoroughly, other than for papers with “Olson” in the title. Many other papers will already appear in the reading lists for Notes on Animalism and the like.
• Works on this topic that I’ve actually read¹², which may be by Olson or arguments against him, include the following:-
  • Aeon:
    1. "Olson (Eric) - Why Is Death Bad?", 2016, External Link, Internal PDF Link
  • General:
    1. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Reply to Olson", 2001, Write-Up Note¹³, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    2. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Response to Eric Olson", 2008, Write-Up Note¹⁴, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Note: Written-up.
    3. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Review of 'What Are We? A Study in Personal Ontology' by Eric T. Olson", 2008, Write-Up Note¹⁵, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    4. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - What Am I?", 1999, Write-Up Note¹⁶, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Footnote₁₇
    5. "Dainton (Barry) - Review of Eric Olson's 'The Human Animal: Personal Identity Without Psychology'", 1998, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    6. "DeGrazia (David) - Are we essentially persons? Olson, Baker, and a reply", 2002, Write-Up Note¹⁸, Annotations, Internal PDF Link, Footnote₁₉
    7. "Gendler (Tamar Szabo) - Review of Eric Olson's 'The Human Animal: Personal Identity Without Psychology'", 1999, Annotations, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
    8. "Markosian (Ned) - Three Problems for Olson's Account of Personal Identity", 2008, Write-Up Note²⁰, Annotations, Internal PDF Link, Note: Written-up.
    9. "Marshall (Richard) & Olson (Eric) - Eric T. Olson: The Philosopher with No Hands", 2014, External Link, Note: Written-up.
    10. "Olson (Eric) - An Argument for Animalism", 2003, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    11. "Olson (Eric) - Animalism and the Corpse Problem", 2004, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    12. "Olson (Eric) - Animalism and the Remnant-Person Problem", 2015, Internal PDF Link, Note: Write-up started.
    13. "Olson (Eric) - Are People Animals?", 1999
    14. "Olson (Eric) - Dion's Foot", 1997, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    15. "Olson (Eric) - Ethics and the Generous Ontology", 2010, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    16. "Olson (Eric) - Human People Or Human Animals", 1995, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    17. "Olson (Eric) - Immanent Causation and Life After Death", 2010, Write-Up Note²¹, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Footnote₂₂
    18. "Olson (Eric) - Imperfect Identity", 2006, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    19. "Olson (Eric) - Is Psychology Relevant To Personal Identity?", 1994, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    20. "Olson (Eric) - Life After Death and the Devastation of the Grave", 2015, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Note: Written-up.
    21. "Olson (Eric) - Material Coincidence and the Indiscernibility Problem", 2001, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    22. "Olson (Eric) - On Parfit's View That We Are Not Human Beings", 2015, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    23. "Olson (Eric) - Persistence", 1999, Note: Write-up started.
    24. "Olson (Eric) - Personal Identity", 2003, Annotations
    25. "Olson (Eric) - Personal Identity - Oxford Bibliographies Online", 2011/2017, Write-Up Note²³, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    26. "Olson (Eric) - Personal Identity (Stanford, 2002)", 2002, Annotations, External Link
    27. "Olson (Eric) - Personal Identity and the Radiation Argument", 2001, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    28. "Olson (Eric) - Precis of 'The Human Animal'", 2008, Write-Up Note²⁴, Internal PDF Link
    29. "Olson (Eric) - Psychology and Personal Identity", 1999
    30. "Olson (Eric) - Relativism and Persistence", 1997, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    31. "Olson (Eric) - Replies to Baker, Markosian & Zimmerman", 2008, Write-Up Note²⁵, Annotations, Internal PDF Link, Footnote₂₆
    32. "Olson (Eric) - Reply to Lynne Rudder Baker", 1999, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    33. "Olson (Eric) - Review of Hud Hudson's 'A Materialist Metaphysics of the Human Person'", 2002, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    34. "Olson (Eric) - Review of P. Snowdon, Persons, Animals, Ourselves", 2015, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    35. "Olson (Eric) - Review of 'Persons: Human and Divine'", 2008, Write-Up Note²⁷, Annotations, Internal PDF Link, Footnote₂₈
    36. "Olson (Eric) - The Biological Approach", 1999
    37. "Olson (Eric) - The Human Animal - Personal Identity Without Psychology", 1997, Book
    38. "Olson (Eric) - The Human Animal: Alternatives", 1999
    39. "Olson (Eric) - The Human Animal: Introduction", 1999, Note: Write-up started.
    40. "Olson (Eric) - The Human Animal: References", 1999, Note: Write-up started.
    41. "Olson (Eric) - The Person and the Corpse", 2015, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    42. "Olson (Eric) - There Is No Problem of the Self", 1998, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    43. "Olson (Eric) - Thinking Animals and the Constitution View", 2001, Write-Up Note²⁹, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    44. "Olson (Eric) - Thinking Animals and the Reference of 'I'", 2002, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    45. "Olson (Eric) - Warum wir Tiere sind (Why we are animals)", 2003, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    46. "Olson (Eric) - Was I Ever a Fetus?", 1997, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    47. "Olson (Eric) - Was I Ever a Fetus? (Human Animal)", 1999
    48. "Olson (Eric) - Was Jekyll Hyde?", 2003, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    49. "Olson (Eric) - What Are We?", 2007, Write-Up Note³⁰, Annotations, Internal PDF Link, Footnote₃₁
    50. "Olson (Eric) - What are We? A Study of Personal Ontology", 2007, Book
    51. "Olson (Eric) - What Are We? Animals", 2007, Write-Up Note³², Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    52. "Olson (Eric) - What Are We? Brains", 2007, Write-Up Note³³, Internal PDF Link
    53. "Olson (Eric) - What Are We? Bundles", 2007, Write-Up Note³⁴, Internal PDF Link
    54. "Olson (Eric) - What Are We? Constitution", 2007, Write-Up Note³⁵, Internal PDF Link
    55. "Olson (Eric) - What Are We? Contents + References", 2007, Internal PDF Link, Note: Written-up.
    56. "Olson (Eric) - What Are We? Nihilism", 2007, Write-Up Note³⁶, Internal PDF Link
    57. "Olson (Eric) - What Are We? Souls", 2007, Write-Up Note³⁷, Internal PDF Link
    58. "Olson (Eric) - What Are We? Temporal Parts", 2007, Write-Up Note³⁸, Internal PDF Link
    59. "Olson (Eric) - What Are We? The Question", 2007, Write-Up Note³⁹, Internal PDF Link
    60. "Olson (Eric) - What Are We? What Now?", 2007, Write-Up Note⁴⁰, Internal PDF Link
    61. "Olson (Eric) - Why I Have No Hands", 1995, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    62. "Olson (Eric) - Why We Need Not Accept the Psychological Approach", 1999, Note: Write-up started.
    63. "Olson (Eric), Etc. - Abstracta Special Issue on 'The Human Animal'", 2008, Book, Note: Written-up.
    64. "Shoemaker (Sydney) - Review of Eric Olson's 'The Human Animal: Personal Identity Without Psychology'", 1999, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
• I ought really to have read everything Olson has to say on topics covered by my Thesis, together with criticisms by others. A list of relevant items not covered above appears below:-
  • General:
    1. "Funkhouser (Eric) - Notes on Olson, 'An Argument for Animalism'", 2014, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 33%
    2. "Hershenov (David) - Olson's Account of Function and Substance Concepts", Undated, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 6%
    3. "Hershenov (David) - Olson's Embryo Problem", 2002, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    4. "Lowe (E.J.) - Material Coincidence and the Cinematographic Fallacy: A Response to Olson", 2002, Internal PDF Link
    5. "Olson (Eric) - A Compound of Two Substances", 2001, Internal PDF Link
    6. "Olson (Eric) - Composition and Coincidence", 1996, Internal PDF Link
    7. "Olson (Eric) - Computer-Generated Life", 1997, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    8. "Olson (Eric) - Critical Notice of Trenton Merricks' 'Objects and Persons'", 2002, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 11%
    9. "Olson (Eric) - Human Atoms", 1998, Annotations, Internal PDF Link, Read = 33%
    10. "Olson (Eric) - Identity, Quantification and Number", 2012, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 11%
    11. "Olson (Eric) - In Search of the Simple View", 2012, Internal PDF Link
    12. "Olson (Eric) - Is there a Bodily Criterion of Personal Identity", 2006, Internal PDF Link
    13. "Olson (Eric) - Lowe's Defence of Constitutionalism", 2003, Internal PDF Link
    14. "Olson (Eric) - Metaphysics - Answers to Five Questions", 2010, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 22%
    15. "Olson (Eric) - Objects and Their Matter", 2012, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 19%
    16. "Olson (Eric) - Papers on Identity Boxes: Vol 13 (Olson)", Book, Read = 16%
    17. "Olson (Eric) - Personal Identity (Stanford, 2007)", 2007, External Link
    18. "Olson (Eric) - Personal Identity (Stanford, 2008)", 2008, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    19. "Olson (Eric) - Personal Identity (Stanford, 2010)", 2002-10, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 7%
    20. "Olson (Eric) - Personal Identity (Stanford, 2015)", 2017, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 15%
    21. "Olson (Eric) - Review of Dancy's 'Reading Parfit'", 1998, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
    22. "Olson (Eric) - Review of Jack Wilson's 'Biological Individuality: The Identity and Persistence of Living Entities'", 2001, Internal PDF Link, Read = 33%
    23. "Olson (Eric) - Review of Lowe's 'The Possibility of Metaphysics'", 2000, Internal PDF Link, Read = 33%
    24. "Olson (Eric) - Review of Lynne Baker's 'Persons And Bodies'", 2001, Internal PDF Link, Read = 67%
    25. "Olson (Eric) - Review of Perry's 'Identity, Personal Identity, and the Self'", 2006, Internal PDF Link, Read = 33%
    26. "Olson (Eric) - Review of Tye's 'Consciousness and Persons - Unity and Identity'", 2006, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 33%
    27. "Olson (Eric) - Self: Personal Identity", 2009, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
    28. "Olson (Eric) - Temporal Parts and Timeless Parthood", 2006, Internal PDF Link
    29. "Olson (Eric) - The Epicurean View of Death", 2013, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 6%
    30. "Olson (Eric) - The Extended Self", 2011, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 5%
    31. "Olson (Eric) - The Metaphysical Implications of Conjoined Twining", 2014, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
    32. "Olson (Eric) - The Nature of People", 2014, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 25%
    33. "Olson (Eric) - The Ontology of Material Objects", 2002, Internal PDF Link
    34. "Olson (Eric) - The Paradox of Increase", 2006, Internal PDF Link, Read = 4%
    35. "Olson (Eric) - The Passage of Time", 2009, Internal PDF Link
    36. "Olson (Eric) - The Rate of Time’s Passage", 2009, Internal PDF Link
    37. "Olson (Eric) - The Remnant-Person Problem", 2016, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 33%
    38. "Olson (Eric) - The Role of the Brainstem in Personal Identity", 2016, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 22%
    39. "Olson (Eric) - The Zombies Among Us", 2017, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 8%
    40. "Olson (Eric) - Was I Ever a Fetus? ('New Version')", 2008, Internal PDF Link, Read = 8%
    41. "Olson (Eric) - What Does Functionalism Tell Us About Personal Identity", 2002, Internal PDF Link, Read = 13%
    42. "Olson (Eric) - What Does It Mean To Say That We Are Animals?", 2015, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 6%

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• 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:-
  1. Read: No items to list.
  2. Further Reading: No items to list.
• This is mostly a place-holder⁴¹.

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In-Page Footnotes:

Footnote 17:

• See Draft Note, Review Comments.

Footnote 19:

• See Skeleton Note.

Footnote 22:

• Written-up.

Footnote 26:

• Written-up:
  → Baker,
  → Markosian,
  → Zimmerman.

Footnote 28:

• Written-up

Footnote 31:

• See Draft Note.
• Review Comments:–
  → First Half,
  → Second Half.

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Table of the Previous 8 Versions of this Note:

Date	Length	Title
20/09/2022 11:24:00	8995	Olson
07/05/2022 00:44:38	8998	Olson
15/02/2021 13:40:48	8458	Olson
16/06/2020 18:12:58	4841	Olson
14/07/2019 18:05:46	2625	Olson
19/12/2017 18:36:00	3932	Olson
02/07/2015 23:12:29	465	Olson
27/07/2009 11:36:58	428	Olson

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Note last updated	Reading List for this Topic	Parent Topic
06/07/2023 00:43:12	Olson	None

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Summary of Notes Referenced by This Note

Animalism	Animalists	Awaiting Attention (Personal Identity)	Baker	Baker - Persons and Bodies - Response to Olson
Baker - Review - Olson - What Are We?	Baker - The Human Animal: Response to Olson	Baker - What Am I?	Brain Transplants	Brandom - Toward a Normative Pragmatics (Introduction)
Constitution View	Corpses	DeGrazia - Are We Essentially Persons?	Fetuses	Jen_080218 (Olson)
Jen_080303 (Olson, Baillie)	Jen_080317 (Baker)	Markosian - The Human Animal: Three Problems for Olson	Note Links Explanation	Olson - Immanent Causation and Life After Death
Olson - Personal Identity - Oxford Bibliographies Online	Olson - Persons and Bodies - Response	Olson - Review of 'Persons: Human and Divine'	Olson - The Human Animal (Precis)	Olson - The Human Animal: Reply to Baker
Olson - The Human Animal: Reply to Markosian	Olson - The Human Animal: Reply to Zimmerman	Olson - What Are We?	Olson - What Are We? Animals	Olson - What Are We? Brains
Olson - What Are We? Bundles	Olson - What Are We? Constitution	Olson - What Are We? Nihilism	Olson - What Are We? Souls	Olson - What Are We? Temporal Parts
Olson - What Are We? The Question	Olson - What Are We? What Now?	Plug Note Apologia	Psychological View	Thinking Animal Argument
Works Read - Explanation

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Summary of Notes Citing This Note

Animalism	Animalism - Arguments For	Animalists	Baker	Baker - Persons in the Material World
Coincidence	Human Beings	Intermittent Objects	Mereology	Olson - What Are We? Animals
Organisms	PID Note, Book & Paper Usage, 2, 3	Sortals	Thesis - Chapter 02 (What are We?)	Thesis - Chapter 04 (Basic Metaphysical Issues)
Thesis - Chapter 05 (Persistence and Time)	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), 2, 3	Thesis - Chapter 10 (Thought Experiments)	Thesis - Current Stance
Thesis - Personal Identity, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13	Thinking Animal Argument	Transplants	Website Generator Documentation - Functors, 2, 3, 4, 5

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Authors, Books & Papers Citing this Note

Author	Title	Medium	Extra Links	Read?
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Persons in the Material World	Paper		Yes
Burke (Michael)	Copper Statues and Pieces of Copper: A Challenge to the Standard Account	Paper		Yes
Kagan (Shelly)	How to Count Animals, more or less	Paper
Olson (Eric)	N/A	Author
Olson (Eric)	What Are We? Animals	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Animalism	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Animalism - Arguments For	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Animalists	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Baker	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 02 (What Are We?)	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 04 (Basic Metaphysical Issues)	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 05 (Persistence and Time)	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	2, 3	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 10 (Thought Experiments)	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Coincidence	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Current Position	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Human Beings	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Intermittent Objects	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Mereology	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Organisms	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Personal Identity	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Sortals	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Thinking Animal Argument	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Transplants	Paper		Yes
Van Inwagen (Peter)	Materialism and the Psychological-continuity Account of Personal Identity	Paper		Yes

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References & Reading List

Author	Title	Medium	Source	Read?
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Persons and Bodies: A Constitution View	Book - Referencing (via Paper Referencing)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Persons in the Material World	Paper - Referencing	Baker (Lynne) - Persons and Bodies, Chapter 1, pp. 3-88	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	What Am I?	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophy and Phenomenological Research Mar99, Vol. 59 Issue 1, p151, 9p;	Yes
Blatti (Stephan) & Snowdon (Paul), Eds.	Animalism: New Essays on Persons, Animals, and Identity	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Blatti (Stephan) & Snowdon (Paul), Eds. - Animalism: New Essays on Persons, Animals, and Identity	22%
Bradley (Ben), Feldman (Fred) & Johansson (Jens)	The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Death	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Bradley (Ben), Feldman (Fred) & Johansson (Jens) - The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Death	7%
Corcoran (Kevin), Ed.	Soul, Body and Survival: Essays on the Metaphysics of Human Persons	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Corcoran (Kevin), Ed. - Soul, Body and Survival: Essays on the Metaphysics of Human Persons	99%
DeGrazia (David)	Are we essentially persons? Olson, Baker, and a reply	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Forum; Winter2002, Vol. 33 Issue 1, p101, 20p	Yes
Funkhouser (Eric)	Metaphysics, Spring 2014	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	94%
Funkhouser (Eric)	Notes on Olson, 'An Argument for Animalism'	Paper - Cited	Funkhouser (Eric) - Metaphysics, Spring 2014	No
Gallagher (Shaun) & Shear (Jonathan), Eds.	Models of the Self	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Gallagher (Shaun) & Shear (Jonathan), Eds. - Models of the Self	2%
Gasser (Georg) & Stefan (Matthias), Eds.	Personal Identity: Complex or Simple?	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Gasser (Georg) & Stefan (Matthias), Eds. - Personal Identity: Complex or Simple?	4%
Gasser (Georg), Ed.	Personal Identity and Resurrection: How Do We Survive Our Death?	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Gasser (Georg), Ed. - Personal Identity and Resurrection: How Do We Survive Our Death?	96%
Hains (Brigid) & Hains (Paul)	Aeon: L-P	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	33%
JCS	Journal of Consciousness Studies, Volume 14, Issue 05-06 (2007)	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	JCS - Journal of Consciousness Studies, Volume 14, Issue 05-06 (2007)	No
Luper (Steven), Ed.	The Cambridge Companion to Life and Death	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Luper (Steven), Ed. - The Cambridge Companion to Life and Death	5%
MacBride (Fraser), Ed.	Identity and Modality	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	MacBride (Fraser), Ed. - Identity and Modality	5%
Marshall (Richard)	Philosophy at 3:AM: Questions and Answers with 25 Top Philosophers	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Marshall (Richard) - Philosophy at 3:AM: Questions and Answers with 25 Top Philosophers	37%
Marshall (Richard) & Olson (Eric)	Eric T. Olson: The Philosopher with No Hands	Paper - By Subtopic	Marshall (Richard) - Philosophy at 3:AM: Questions and Answers with 25 Top Philosophers	Yes
Martin (L. Michael) & Augustine (Keith)	The Myth of an Afterlife: The Case against Life After Death	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Martin (L. Michael) & Augustine (Keith) - The Myth of an Afterlife: The Case against Life After Death	15%
Martin (Raymond) & Barresi (John), Eds.	Personal Identity	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Martin (Raymond) & Barresi (John), Eds. - Personal Identity	13%
Meincke (Anne Sophie)	Body or Organism? Eric T. Olson’s Charge of Cartesianism against the Bodily Criterion of Personal Identity	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophisches Jahrbuch 117, 88-120, 2010	7%
O'Hear (Anthony), Ed.	Mind, Self and Person	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	O'Hear (Anthony), Ed. - Mind, Self and Person	35%
Olson (Eric)	A Compound of Two Substances	Paper - By Subtopic	Corcoran - Soul, Body and Survival, Chapter 5	No
Olson (Eric)	An Argument for Animalism	Paper - By Subtopic	Martin & Barresi - Personal Identity, Chapter 12	Yes
Olson (Eric)	Animalism and the Corpse Problem	Paper - By Subtopic	Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 82, No. 2, pp. 265-274; June 2004	Yes
Olson (Eric)	Animalism and the Remnant-Person Problem	Paper - By Subtopic	J. Fonseca and J. Gonçalves, eds., Philosophical Perspectives on the Self, Peter Lang 2015: 21-40	Yes
Olson (Eric)	Are People Animals?	Paper - By Subtopic	The Human Animal, September 1999, Chapter 5, pp. 94-123	Yes
Olson (Eric)	Ben's Body Reads the Guardian	Paper - By Subtopic	Chinese Semiotic Studies 13(4): 367–380, 2017.	8%
Olson (Eric)	Composition and Coincidence	Paper - By Subtopic	Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 77 (1996), pp. 374-403	No
Olson (Eric)	Computer-Generated Life	Paper - By Subtopic	Final version: Olson, E.T. (1997) The Ontological Basis of Strong Artificial Life. Artificial Life, 3 (1). pp. 29-39	No
Olson (Eric)	Critical Notice of Trenton Merricks' 'Objects and Persons'	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Books 43, 2002, pp. 292-299	11%
Olson (Eric)	Dion's Foot	Paper - By Subtopic	Journal of Philosophy 94, No. 5 (May, 1997), 260-265	Yes
Olson (Eric)	Ethics and the Generous Ontology	Paper - By Subtopic	Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 31 (special issue: Personal Identity and Bioethics), 2010: 259–270	Yes
Olson (Eric)	Human Atoms	Paper - By Subtopic	Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 76, No 3, pp. 396-406; September 1998	33%
Olson (Eric)	Human People Or Human Animals	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Studies 80:159-181, 1995	Yes
Olson (Eric)	Identity, Quantification and Number	Paper - By Subtopic	T. Tahko, ed., Contemporary Aristotelian Metaphysics, Cambridge University Press 2012: 66-82	11%
Olson (Eric)	Immanent Causation and Life After Death	Paper - By Subtopic	Gasser (Georg) - Personal Identity and Resurrection: How Do We Survive Our Death? 2010	Yes
Olson (Eric)	Imperfect Identity	Paper - By Subtopic	Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 106, Number 2, March 2006, pp. 247-264(18)	Yes
Olson (Eric)	In Search of the Simple View	Paper - By Subtopic	Gasser (Georg) & Stefan (Matthias), Eds. - Personal Identity: Complex or Simple? 2012	No
Olson (Eric)	Is Psychology Relevant To Personal Identity?	Paper - By Subtopic	Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 72, Number 2, June 1994, pp. 173-186(14).	Yes
Olson (Eric)	Is there a Bodily Criterion of Personal Identity	Paper - By Subtopic	MacBride - Identity and Modality, 2006, Chapter 11	No
Olson (Eric)	Life After Death and the Devastation of the Grave	Paper - By Subtopic	Martin & Augustine - The Myth of an Afterlife, Part 2, Chapter 19, 2015: 409-423	Yes
Olson (Eric)	Lowe's Defence of Constitutionalism	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 53, Number 210, January 2003, pp. 92-95(4)	No
Olson (Eric)	Material Coincidence and the Indiscernibility Problem	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Quarterly 51, No. 204, July 2001	Yes
Olson (Eric)	Metaphysics - Answers to Five Questions	Paper - By Subtopic	Olson's Website; To appear in A. Steglich-Petersen, Metaphysics - 5 Questions, Automatic Press, New York, 2010	22%
Olson (Eric)	Objects and Their Matter	Paper - By Subtopic	Olson's Website; To appear in R. Garcia, Ed., Substance, Philosophia Verlag.	19%
Olson (Eric)	On Parfit's View That We Are Not Human Beings	Paper - By Subtopic	O'Hear (Anthony), Ed. - Mind, Self and Person, 2015: 39-56	Yes
Olson (Eric)	Papers on Identity Boxes: Vol 13 (Olson)	Book - Cited	Olson (Eric) - Papers on Identity Boxes: Vol 13 (Olson)	16%
Olson (Eric)	Parfit’s Metaphysics and What Matters in Survival	Paper - By Subtopic	Argumenta 5, 1 (2019): 21-39	11%
Olson (Eric)	Persistence	Paper - By Subtopic	The Human Animal, September 1999, Chapter 2, pp. 22-41	Yes
Olson (Eric)	Personal Identity	Paper - By Subtopic	Stich & Warfield - Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Mind, 2003	Yes
Olson (Eric)	Personal Identity - Oxford Bibliographies Online	Paper - By Subtopic	Oxford Bibliographies Online / Sheffield University website	Yes
Olson (Eric)	Personal Identity (Stanford, 2002)	Paper - By Subtopic	Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, 2002	Yes
Olson (Eric)	Personal Identity (Stanford, 2007)	Paper - By Subtopic	Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, 2007	No
Olson (Eric)	Personal Identity (Stanford, 2008)	Paper - By Subtopic	Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, 2008	No
Olson (Eric)	Personal Identity (Stanford, 2010)	Paper - By Subtopic	Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, 2002-10	7%
Olson (Eric)	Personal Identity (Stanford, 2015)	Paper - By Subtopic	Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, Summer 2017	15%
Olson (Eric)	Personal Identity and the Radiation Argument	Paper - By Subtopic	Analysis 61, January 2001, pp. 38-44(7).	Yes
Olson (Eric)	Precis of 'The Human Animal'	Paper - By Subtopic	Abstracta Special Issue I – 2008 (Brazil)	Yes
Olson (Eric)	Psychology and Personal Identity	Paper - By Subtopic	The Human Animal, September 1999, Chapter 1, pp. 7-21	Yes
Olson (Eric)	Relativism and Persistence	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Studies 88, Number 2, November 1997, pp. 141-162(22)	Yes
Olson (Eric)	Replies to Baker, Markosian & Zimmerman	Paper - By Subtopic	Abstracta Special Issue I – 2008 (Brazil)	Yes
Olson (Eric)	Reply to Lynne Rudder Baker	Paper - Cited	Philosophy and Phenomenological Research Mar99, Vol. 59 Issue 1, p161, 6p;	Yes
Olson (Eric)	Review of Dancy's 'Reading Parfit'	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Books; Oct1998, Vol. 39 Issue 4, p252-4	No
Olson (Eric)	Review of Hud Hudson's 'A Materialist Metaphysics of the Human Person'	Paper - Cited	Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews	Yes
Olson (Eric)	Review of Jack Wilson's 'Biological Individuality: The Identity and Persistence of Living Entities'	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Quarterly, 2001, Vol. 51 Issue 203, p264-6	No
Olson (Eric)	Review of Lowe's 'The Possibility of Metaphysics'	Paper - By Subtopic	Mind, 109, Number 436, October 2000, pp. 967-9	No
Olson (Eric)	Review of Lynne Baker's 'Persons And Bodies'	Paper - By Subtopic	Mind, 110, Number 438, April 2001, pp. 427-430(4)	No
Olson (Eric)	Review of P. Snowdon, Persons, Animals, Ourselves	Paper - Cited	Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2015.06.31	Yes
Olson (Eric)	Review of Perry's 'Identity, Personal Identity, and the Self'	Paper - By Subtopic	European Journal of Philosophy 14 (3):434-437 (2006)	33%
Olson (Eric)	Review of 'Persons: Human and Divine'	Paper - By Subtopic	Mind, 2008	Yes
Olson (Eric)	Review of Tye's 'Consciousness and Persons - Unity and Identity'	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 73, 2006: 500-503	33%
Olson (Eric)	Self: Personal Identity	Paper - By Subtopic	W. Banks, ed., Encyclopedia of Consciousness (Elsevier Academic Press), vol. 2, 301-312, 2009	17%
Olson (Eric)	Swinburne’s Brain Transplants	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophia Christi, Volume 20, Issue 1, 2018; Symposium on Dualism and Physicalism	22%
Olson (Eric)	Temporal Parts and Timeless Parthood	Paper - By Subtopic	Nous 40: 738-752, 2006	No
Olson (Eric)	The Biological Approach	Paper - By Subtopic	The Human Animal, September 1999, Chapter 6, pp. 124-153	Yes
Olson (Eric)	The Central Dogma Of Transhumanism	Paper - By Subtopic	Boran Berčić (Editor) - Perspectives on the Self, July 2017, pp. 35-58.	67%
Olson (Eric)	The Epicurean View of Death	Paper - By Subtopic	Journal of Ethics 17 (special issue: The Benefits and Harms of Existence and Non-Existence), 2013: 65-78	6%
Olson (Eric)	The Extended Self	Paper - By Subtopic	Minds and Machines 21 (special issue: The Construction of Personal Identities Online), 2011: 481-495	5%
Olson (Eric)	The Human Animal - Personal Identity Without Psychology	Book - Cited	Olson (Eric) - The Human Animal - Personal Identity Without Psychology	Yes
Olson (Eric)	The Human Animal: Alternatives	Paper - By Subtopic	The Human Animal, September 1999, Chapter 7, pp. 154-169	Yes
Olson (Eric)	The Human Animal: Introduction	Paper - By Subtopic	The Human Animal, September 1999, Introduction, pp. 3-7	Yes
Olson (Eric)	The Human Animal: References	Paper - By Subtopic	The Human Animal, September 1999, References (pp. 179-185)	Yes
Olson (Eric)	The Metaphysical Implications of Conjoined Twining	Paper - By Subtopic	Southern Journal of Philosophy 52, Spindel Supplement, 2014: 24-40	17%
Olson (Eric)	The Nature of People	Paper - By Subtopic	Luper - The Cambridge Companion to Life and Death, 2014, Chapter 2	25%
Olson (Eric)	The Ontology of Material Objects	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Books, Oct2002, Vol. 43 Issue 4, p292-299, 8p	No
Olson (Eric)	The Paradox of Increase	Paper - By Subtopic	The Monist, Vol. 89, No. 3, Coming into Being and Passing Away (July 2006), pp. 390-417	4%
Olson (Eric)	The Passage of Time	Paper - By Subtopic	Robin Le Poidevin (ed.), The Routledge Companion to Metaphysics. Routledge (2009)	No
Olson (Eric)	The Person and the Corpse	Paper - By Subtopic	Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Death; ed. Ben Bradley, Fred Feldman, and Jens Johansson (OUP, 2015), pp. 80-96	Yes
Olson (Eric)	The Rate of Time’s Passage	Paper - By Subtopic	Analysis 69, 2009	No
Olson (Eric)	The Remnant-Person Problem	Paper - By Subtopic	Blatti & Snowdon - Animalism: New Essays on Persons, Animals, and Identity, 2016: Part II, Chapter 7, pp. 145-161	33%
Olson (Eric)	The Role of the Brainstem in Personal Identity	Paper - By Subtopic	A. Blank, ed., Animals: New Essays, Philosophia 2016: 291-302	22%
Olson (Eric)	The Zombies Among Us	Paper - By Subtopic	Nous, 52(1), March 2018, 216-226	8%
Olson (Eric)	There Is No Problem of the Self	Paper - By Subtopic	Journal of Consciousness Studies, Volume 5, Numbers 5-6, 1998, pp. 645-657(13)	Yes
Olson (Eric)	Warum wir Tiere sind (Why we are animals)	Paper - By Subtopic	Petrus - On Human Persons, 2003	Yes
Olson (Eric)	Was I Ever a Fetus?	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophy and Phenomenological Research Mar97, Vol. 57 Issue 1, p95, 18p;	Yes
Olson (Eric)	Was I Ever a Fetus? (Human Animal)	Paper - By Subtopic	The Human Animal, September 1999, Chapter 4, pp. 73-93	Yes
Olson (Eric)	Was I Ever a Fetus? ('New Version')	Paper - By Subtopic	R. Nichols et al., eds., Philosophy Through Science Fiction, Routledge 2008.	8%
Olson (Eric)	Was Jekyll Hyde?	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 66, Number 2, 1 March 2003, pp. 328-348(21)	Yes
Olson (Eric)	What Are We?	Paper - By Subtopic	Journal of Consciousness Studies, Volume 14, Issue 05-06 (2007), pp. 37-55 (19)	Yes
Olson (Eric)	What are We? A Study of Personal Ontology	Book - Cited	Olson (Eric) - What are We? A Study of Personal Ontology	Yes
Olson (Eric)	What Are We? Animals	Paper - Cited	What Are We? A Study in Personal Ontology, Chapter 2 (November 2007: Oxford University Press.)	Yes
Olson (Eric)	What Are We? Animals	Paper - Referencing	What Are We? A Study in Personal Ontology, Chapter 2 (November 2007: Oxford University Press.)	Yes
Olson (Eric)	What Are We? Brains	Paper - Cited	What Are We? A Study in Personal Ontology, Chapter 4 (November 2007: Oxford University Press.)	Yes
Olson (Eric)	What Are We? Bundles	Paper - Cited	What Are We? A Study in Personal Ontology, Chapter 6 (November 2007: Oxford University Press.)	Yes
Olson (Eric)	What Are We? Constitution	Paper - Cited	What Are We? A Study in Personal Ontology, Chapter 3 (November 2007: Oxford University Press.)	Yes
Olson (Eric)	What Are We? Contents + References	Paper - By Subtopic	What Are We? A Study in Personal Ontology - Contents + References (November 2007: Oxford University Press.)	Yes
Olson (Eric)	What Are We? Nihilism	Paper - By Subtopic	What Are We? A Study in Personal Ontology, Chapter 8 (November 2007: Oxford University Press.)	Yes
Olson (Eric)	What Are We? Souls	Paper - By Subtopic	What Are We? A Study in Personal Ontology, Chapter 7 (November 2007: Oxford University Press.)	Yes
Olson (Eric)	What Are We? Temporal Parts	Paper - By Subtopic	What Are We? A Study in Personal Ontology, Chapter 5 (November 2007: Oxford University Press.)	Yes
Olson (Eric)	What Are We? The Question	Paper - By Subtopic	What Are We? A Study in Personal Ontology, Chapter 1 (November 2007: Oxford University Press.)	Yes
Olson (Eric)	What Are We? What Now?	Paper - By Subtopic	What Are We? A Study in Personal Ontology, Chapter 9 (November 2007: Oxford University Press.)	Yes
Olson (Eric)	What Does Functionalism Tell Us About Personal Identity	Paper - By Subtopic	Nous, Dec2002, Vol. 36 Issue 4, p682-698, 17p;	13%
Olson (Eric)	What Does It Mean To Say That We Are Animals?	Paper - By Subtopic	Journal of Consciousness Studies 22: 11-12 (special issue: First-Person Perspective and the Self), 2015: 84-107	6%
Olson (Eric)	Why I Have No Hands	Paper - By Subtopic	Theoria 61 (1995): 182-197	Yes
Olson (Eric)	Why Is Death Bad?	Paper - Cited	Aeon, 22 April, 2016	Yes
Olson (Eric)	Why We Need Not Accept the Psychological Approach	Paper - By Subtopic	The Human Animal, September 1999, Chapter 3, pp. 42-72	Yes
Olson (Eric) & Witt (Karsten)	Narrative and persistence	Paper - By Subtopic	Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 49(3), 2019, 414-434	13%
Olson (Eric), Etc.	Abstracta Special Issue on 'The Human Animal'	Book - Cited	Olson (Eric), Etc. - Abstracta Special Issue on 'The Human Animal'	Yes
Petrus (Klaus), Ed.	On Human Persons	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Petrus (Klaus), Ed. - On Human Persons	73%
Stich (Stephen) & Warfield (Ted), Eds.	Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Mind	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Stich (Stephen) & Warfield (Ted), Eds. - Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Mind	5%
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Olson	Paper - By Subtopic		Yes
Van Inwagen (Peter)	Materialism and the Psychological-continuity Account of Personal Identity	Paper - Referencing	Van Inwagen - Ontology, Identity and Modality, Part II: Identity, Chapter 9, 1997	Yes
Van Inwagen (Peter)	Ontology, Identity and Modality: Essays in metaphysics	Book - Referencing (via Paper Referencing)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	17%

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