What are we?

Journal of Consciousness Studies 14 (5-6):37-55 (2007)
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This paper is about the neglected question of what sort of things we are metaphysically speaking. It is different from the mind-body problem and from familiar questions of personal identity. After explaining what the question means and how it differs from others, the paper tries to show how difficult it is to give a satisfying answer

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Eric T. Olson
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Identity.Harold Noonan & Benjamin L. Curtis - 2022 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Personal Identity.David Shoemaker & Kevin P. Tobia - 2022 - In Manuel Vargas & John Doris (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Moral Psychology. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press.
We Are Not Human Beings.Derek Parfit - 2012 - Philosophy 87 (1):5-28.
Ordinary objects.Daniel Z. Korman - 2011 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

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