Persons, Animals, Ourselves

Autor

Paul F. Snowdon

Editura

Oxford University Press

An publicare

2017

Nr. Pagini

270

ISBN

9780198769996

Categorii

Psihologie Stiinte Eul Identitatea Personalitatea Societate Si Stiinte Sociale Sinele

Descriere

What kind of thing are we? Paul Snowdon's answer is that we are animals, of a sort. This view-'animalism'-may seem obvious but on the whole philosophers have rejected it. Snowdon argues that animalism is a defensible way of thinking about ourselves. Its rejection rests on the tendency when doing philosophy to mistake fantasy for reality.