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Eric Olson

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personal identity

  • Thomas Reid
    In personal identity: Animalism

    According to the American philosopher Eric Olson and others, persons are biologically individuated animals whose persistence through time consists of biological continuity, which is constituted by the biological processes that make up an organism’s life. Animalism is additionally supported by the fact that in actual cases (not involving brain transplants…

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