Olson E. T. Was I Ever a Fetus? / trans. from Engl. V. A. Sermaksheva
The Standard View of personal identity says that someone who exists now can exist at another time only if there is continuity of her mental contents or capacities. But no person is psychologically continuous with a fetus, for a fetus, at least early in its career, has no mental features at all. S...
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| Language: | English |
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Omsk State Technical University, Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Education
2021-05-01
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| Series: | Омский научный вестник: Серия "Общество. История. Современность" |
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| Online Access: | https://www.omgtu.ru/general_information/media_omgtu/journal_of_omsk_research_journal/files/arhiv/2021/%D0%A2.%206,%20%E2%84%96%202%20(%D0%9E%D0%98%D0%A1)/113-123%20%D0%AD.%20%D0%A2.%20%D0%9E%D0%BB%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD.pdf |
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| Summary: | The Standard View of personal identity says that someone who exists now can exist
at another time only if there is continuity of her mental contents or capacities. But
no person is psychologically continuous with a fetus, for a fetus, at least early in its
career, has no mental features at all. So the Standard View entails that no person
was ever a fetus-contrary to the popular assumption that an unthinking fetus is
a potential person. It is also mysterious what does ordinarily happen to a human
fetus, if it does not come to be a person. Although an extremely complex variant
of the Standard View may allow one to persist without psychological continuity
before one becomes a person but not afterwards, a far simpler solution is to accept
a radically non-psychological account of our identity |
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| ISSN: | 2542-0488 2541-7983 |