Olson, Eric T.
Lecturer in Philosophy and Fellow, Churchill College, Cambridge
Print publication date: 1999
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-513423-0
doi:10.1093/0195134230.001.0001
Abstract:
This book argues that our identity over time involves no psychological facts. Psychological accounts of personal identity lead to grave metaphysical problems, and the arguments for them are inconclusive. The book argues that we are animals, and thus have the purely biological identity conditions of animals.