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The starting point for this book is a particular answer to a question that grips many of us. What kind of thing are we? The particular answer is that we are animals (of a certain sort), a view nowadays called 'animalism'. This answer will appear obvious to many but on the whole philosopher...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Snowdon, Paul F. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Self (Philosophy)
Human behavior.
Human beings.
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Table of Contents:
  • Animalism
  • Animalism and some philosophical problems
  • Animals and persons
  • Animals and us
  • Some questions about animals
  • [A&P] cases; an introduction
  • Multiple personality disorder
  • Animalism and the unity of consciousness
  • [P& A] cases: an introduction
  • Brain, transplants, animals, and us
  • Strengthening the rejection of transplant arguments
  • Conclusions and consequences.