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The Metaphysics of Gender

Charlotte Witt

Print publication date: 2011

Print ISBN-13: 9780199740413

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2012

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199740413.001.0001

Human Organisms, Social Individuals, and Persons

Chapter:
3 (p. 51 ) Human Organisms, Social Individuals, and Persons
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The Metaphysics of Gender
Author(s):

Charlotte Witt

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199740413.003.0003

This chapter distinguishes between human organisms, social individuals, and persons. It argues that the claim of gender essentialism is best formulated as a claim about social individuals rather than about persons or about human organisms.

Keywords:   humans, social individuals, persons, gender essentialism

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