Does Olson’s animalism put end to personal identity debate?

Theory of Eric Olson’s animalism is evaluated in the article in relation to his debate with the proponents of psychological approach to personal identity problem. Olson aims to show the irrelevance of psychology to the issue and to finish the debate by means of introducing the fetus problem. It i...

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Main Author: D. V. Chirva
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Omsk State Technical University, Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Education 2021-05-01
Series:Омский научный вестник: Серия "Общество. История. Современность"
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Online Access:https://www.omgtu.ru/general_information/media_omgtu/journal_of_omsk_research_journal/files/arhiv/2021/%D0%A2.%206,%20%E2%84%96%202%20(%D0%9E%D0%98%D0%A1)/107-112%20%D0%A7%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B2%D0%B0%20%D0%94.%20%D0%92..pdf
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description Theory of Eric Olson’s animalism is evaluated in the article in relation to his debate with the proponents of psychological approach to personal identity problem. Olson aims to show the irrelevance of psychology to the issue and to finish the debate by means of introducing the fetus problem. It is argued that theory of animalism has its certain strong points in comparison with Lynne Baker’s constitution view and Jeff McMahan’s embodied part approach; it does not contain any contradictions and rests on few theoretical assumptions. Nevertheless, it is claimed that animalism does not finish the debate, because it does not take into consideration that a person has a strong self-concern about her future. So the essential part of the general personal identity problem is simply ignored by Olson’s animalism
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spelling doaj-art-c603340335944fff904a306445407fe92025-02-02T22:40:34ZengOmsk State Technical University, Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher EducationОмский научный вестник: Серия "Общество. История. Современность"2542-04882541-79832021-05-016210711210.25206/2542-0488-2021-6-2-107-112Does Olson’s animalism put end to personal identity debate?D. V. Chirva0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7804-8803ITMO UniversityTheory of Eric Olson’s animalism is evaluated in the article in relation to his debate with the proponents of psychological approach to personal identity problem. Olson aims to show the irrelevance of psychology to the issue and to finish the debate by means of introducing the fetus problem. It is argued that theory of animalism has its certain strong points in comparison with Lynne Baker’s constitution view and Jeff McMahan’s embodied part approach; it does not contain any contradictions and rests on few theoretical assumptions. Nevertheless, it is claimed that animalism does not finish the debate, because it does not take into consideration that a person has a strong self-concern about her future. So the essential part of the general personal identity problem is simply ignored by Olson’s animalismhttps://www.omgtu.ru/general_information/media_omgtu/journal_of_omsk_research_journal/files/arhiv/2021/%D0%A2.%206,%20%E2%84%96%202%20(%D0%9E%D0%98%D0%A1)/107-112%20%D0%A7%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B2%D0%B0%20%D0%94.%20%D0%92..pdfolsonbakermcmahanpersonal identityanimalismhuman animalconstitution viewembodied mind view
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Does Olson’s animalism put end to personal identity debate?
Омский научный вестник: Серия "Общество. История. Современность"
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personal identity
animalism
human animal
constitution view
embodied mind view
title Does Olson’s animalism put end to personal identity debate?
title_full Does Olson’s animalism put end to personal identity debate?
title_fullStr Does Olson’s animalism put end to personal identity debate?
title_full_unstemmed Does Olson’s animalism put end to personal identity debate?
title_short Does Olson’s animalism put end to personal identity debate?
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personal identity
animalism
human animal
constitution view
embodied mind view
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