Corpses, Embryos, Animal
Will I be my corpse someday? This is a controversial philosophical question. If I’m a material being, that question is an important part of the metaphysics of material beings. Animalism claims that I’m a human animal. I have started as a fetus. Eric Olson argued that this is incompatible with the...
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Omsk State Technical University, Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Education
2021-09-01
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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%203%20(%D0%9E%D0%98%D0%A1)/83-89%20%D0%9B%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%20%D0%95.%20%D0%92..pdf |
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| Summary: | Will I be my corpse someday? This is a controversial philosophical question. If I’m
a material being, that question is an important part of the metaphysics of material
beings. Animalism claims that I’m a human animal. I have started as a fetus. Eric
Olson argued that this is incompatible with the psychological-continuity approach
to personal identity. From this it follows that we should accept the biological
approach; the persistence condition for me is a Life. William Carter suggested
that this approach has the same problem with the corpses as the psychologicalcontinuity approach has with fetuses. I’m going to show that Carter is not right, but
we should slightly specify a biological approach: the persistence condition for me
is my Life |
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| ISSN: | 2542-0488 2541-7983 |