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Subject: Philosophy  Book Title: The Human Animal
The Human Animal
Personal Identity Without Psychology
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.

Keywords: animalism, animals, death, metaphysics, personal identity, psychological continuity, self
Table of Contents
Introduction
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1. Psychology and Personal Identity
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2. Persistence
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3. Why We Need not Accept the Psychological Approach
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4. Was I Ever a Fetus?
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5. Are People Animals?
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6. The Biological Approach
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7. Alternatives
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Bibliography
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Index
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doi:10.1093/0195134230.001.0001
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