We are not human beings

Philosophy

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 5-28

  Parfit, Derek ^a  

^a ALL SOULS COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84855716574     PISSN: 00318191     EISSN: 1469817X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031819111000520     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. John Locke, Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book II, Chapter XXVI, Section 9.
2. John McDowell, 'Reductionism and the First Person', in Reading Parfit, edited by Jonathan Dancy (Blackwell, 1997), 237.
3. 'Persons, Animals, and Ourselves', in The Person and the Human Mind, edited by Christopher Gill (Oxford University Press, 1990), page 90.
4. 'On What We Are', in The Oxford Handbook of the Self, edited by Shaun Gallagher (Oxford University Press, 2011).
5. Lynne Rudder Baker, Persons and Bodies (Cambridge University Press, 2000).
6. In my 'Persons, Bodies, and Human Beings', written around 1992, published in Contemporary Debates in Metaphysics, edited by John Hawthorne, Dean Zimmerman, and Theodore Sider (Blackwell, 2008).
7. Bernard Williams, 'Are Persons Bodies?' in Problems of the Self, (Cambridge University Press, 1973).
8. 'Animalism and the Remnant Person Problem', henceforth 'Animalism', Sections 1 and 2, in Metaphysics of the Self, edited J. Goncalves (Peter Lang, forthcoming).
9. Eric Olson What Are We? (Oxford University Press, 2007), 216.
10. Mark Johnston, Human Beings Revisited: My Body is Not an Animal', in Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, Volume 3, edited by Dean Zimmerman (Oxford University Press, 2007), 54-5.
11. Jefferson McMahan, Killing at the Margins of Life, (Oxford University Press, 2002), Chapter 1.
12. Ingmar Persson, in his 'Our Identity and the Separability of Persons and Organisms', Dialogue, 1999.
13. 'Self-Doubt: Why We Are Not Identical To Things of Any Kinds', Ratio, December 2004, and his magisterial The Retreat of Reason (Oxford University Press, 2005).
14. William R. Carter 'How to Change Your Mind' Canadian Journal of Philosophy, May 1989, 13.
15. Mark Johnston 'My Body is Not an Animal', in D Zimmerman, ed. Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, Volume 4 (Oxford University Press, 2006) 54.
16. Johnston's Surviving Death (Princeton University Press, 2010).
17. Johnston 'My Body is Not an Animal' op.cit. 50.
18. Eric Olson 'Thinking Animals and the Reference of 'I', Philosophical Topics, Spring, 2002.
19. Eric Olson 'Personal Identity', Section 6, Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, 2002.
20. What Matters (Oxford University Press, 2011).
21. Shoemaker, 'Persons, Animals, and Identity', Synthese 2008, 315.
22. Eric Olson, The Human Animal (Oxford University Press, 1997) 71-2.