An argument for animalism

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The view that we are human animals, " animalism ", is deeply unpopular. This paper explains what that claim says and why it is so contentious. It then argues that those who deny it face an awkward choice. They must either deny that there are any human animals, deny that human animals can think, or deny that we are the thinking things located where we are

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original Olson, Eric T. (2009) "An argument for animalism". In Lizza, John P., Defining the beginning and end of life: readings on personal identity and bioethics, pp. : Johns Hopkins University Press (2009)

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Eric T. Olson
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The Human Animal: Personal Identity Without Psychology.Eric Todd Olson - 1997 - New York, US: Oxford University Press.
Survival and identity.David Lewis - 1976 - In Amélie Rorty, The Identities of Persons. University of California Press. pp. 17-40.
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