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Thesis - Chapter 09 (Arguments against the Constitution View)
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Abstract
- A discussion of the arguments against the Constitution View, focusing on the principal animalists, with a critique.
- In particular, I intend to critique Olson’s “thinking animal” argument1 against the Constitution View (though I think this argument is unnecessary for Olson to establish the case for Animalism).
Research Methodology
- Follow this Link2 for a generic statement of how I intend to pursue each Chapter.
- The method is broken down into 12, possibly iterative, stages.
- Follow this Link3 for my progress dashboard on these tasks.
Chapter Introduction
- To be supplied.
Main Text
- To be supplied.
Links to Books / Papers to be Addressed4
- In this Chapter I will consider the following papers or book chapters (together with some others referenced by these). There are doubtless many more that are relevant and which will be addressed in the course of the thesis, but these are probably sufficient to get us going.
- "Baker (Lynne Rudder), Etc. - E-Symposium on 'Persons & Bodies: A Constitution View'", Baker Etc
- "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Brief Reply to Rosenkrantz's Comments on my 'The Ontological Status of Persons'", Baker
- "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - The Coherence Of the Constitution View of Human Persons", Baker
- "Burke (Michael) - Persons and Bodies: How to Avoid the New Dualism", Burke
- "De Waal (Frans) - The Ape and the Sushi Master: Cultural Reflections of a Primatologist", De Waal5
- "Garrett (Brian) - The Story of I: Some Comments on L.R.Baker 'Persons & Bodies'", Garrett
- "Olson (Eric) - Review of Lynne Baker's 'Persons And Bodies'", Olson
- "Olson (Eric) - Thinking Animals and the Constitution View", Olson
- "Olson (Eric) - What Are We? Constitution", Olson
- "Olson (Eric) - Thinking Animals and the Reference of 'I'", Olson
- "Pereboom (Derek) - On Baker's Persons and Bodies", Peerboom
- "Rosenkrantz (Gary) - Reflections on the Ontological Status of Persons", Rosenkrantz
- "Sider (Ted) - Review of Lynne Rudder Baker, Persons and Bodies", Sider
- "Zimmerman (Dean) - Persons and Bodies: Constitution Without Mereology?", Zimmerman
- There’s a Christian turf-war between Baker and Zimmerman which may be worth including:-
- I’ve not been overly careful to segregate the reading-list of this Chapter from that of Chapter 76. I will address the segregation in due course. There will, in any case, be some overlap.
- Many aspects of these papers will need to be either ignored or reserved for other chapters.
- The motivation for these works is as follows:-
The Cut
- There had already been a lot of cutting in the various selections of the original reading list – the reading lists attached to the Notes run on and on – and these items just represent the works in my possession (though I have sought out all that I’ve heard of that look relevant).
- However, the items in the lists following were given some attention, and have been culled – at least temporarily – from the lists above, where they originally appeared. I’ve not always given a reason as I’ve not studied them sufficiently closely. But, you have to draw a line somewhere.
- I’m well aware that the cut has not been sufficiently rigorous. Further items beyond the items below are likely to be culled when I come to process them.
Links to Notes
- Constitution View – Objections7,
- Thinking Animal Argument8,
- Others to be supplied?
Final Remarks
- This is work in progress9.
In-Page Footnotes
Footnote 4:
- See the section on Research Methodology for what is to be done with these.
- The author’s surname is repeated in the text to make it easier for me to see what’s going on in the encoded text I work on.
Footnote 5: Argues against human uniqueness.
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