Corcoran, Brian Garrett (“Some Thoughts on Animalism”), Paul Snowdon (“Some Objections to Animalism”) Michael B. Lynne Rudder Baker in “The Difference that Self-Consciousness Makes”, Kevin J. Olson’s contribution, written in German, “Warum wir Tiere sind” (“Why we are animals”). In these papers the main bogeyman seems to be Animalism, which is only defended by Eric T. Most of the papers, however, are concerned with the metaphysics or ontology of persons, that is, the question of what it is that makes us the persons we are. Corcoran in his “Biology or Psychology? Human Persons and Personal Identity”. The problem of personal identity over time is taken up by Kevin J. Parfit influentially claimed in Reasons and Persons that what matters to us is not personal identity but psychological continuity. Locke notoriously based what makes up a person on body-independent criteria such as self-consciousness or memory. They are written in the analytic tradition, that is, in the framework, marked on the one end by the work of John Locke and on the other by Derek Parfit. This volume contains a short preface and eleven essays about the ontology of persons and the question of personal identity.
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