Persons, Animals, Ourselves

New York, NY: Oxford University Press (2014)
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What kind of thing are we? Paul Snowdon's answer is that we are animals, of a sort. This view--'animalism'--may seem obvious but on the whole philosophers have rejected it. Snowdon argues that animalism is a defensible way of thinking about ourselves. Its rejection rests on the tendency when doing philosophy to mistake fantasy for reality.

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Animals and Us

This chapter discusses whether there are good reasons to accept (A). It is argued that (A) is an identity claim and so it is asked whether the patterns of arguments for identities that have been proposed in the philosophy of mind can be applied here. It is claimed that some patterns cannot... see more

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