
The Human Animal
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Psychology and Personal Identity
- I. Human Vegetables and Cerebrum Transplants
- II. The Psychological Approach
- III. The Biological Approach
- 2. Persistence
- I. Criteria of Personal Identity
- II. Substance Concepts
- III. Movers and Thinkers
- IV. "Person P1 at Time t1
- 3. Why We Need Not Accept the Psychological Approach
- I. The Transplant Intuition
- II. Whole-Brain Transplants
- III. Fission and Hemispherectomy
- IV. Prudential Concern
- V. Moral Responsibility
- VI. The Treatment Argument
- VII. Same Person
- VIII. Practical Consequences of the Biological Approach
- 4. Was I Ever a Fetus?
- I. The Fetus Problem
- II. Playing the Problem Down
- III. Future-Directed Identity and Disjunctive Criteria
- IV. Second-Order Capacities
- V. When Did I Begin?
- 5. Are People Animals?
- I. Human People or Human Animals?
- II. Appearances
- III. Coincidence
- IV. Personhood
- V. Why We Are Animals
- VI. Psychological Persistence Conditions for Animals?
- VII. Death and Ceasing to Be
- VIII. A Counterattack
- 6. The Biological Approach
- I. Further Questions
- II. Organisms
- III. The Identity of Organisms
- IV. Lives
- V. Brainstem Replacements and Other Difficulties
- VI. The Bodily Criterion
- 7. Alternatives
- I. Are There Any People?
- II. Relative Identity
- III. Temporal Parts
- Notes
- References
- Index
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