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Eric T. Olson

Philosophy

#1725

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#3082

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Metaphysics

#88

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#129

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Epistemology

#216

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#271

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Logic

#8452

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#10578

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Eric T. Olson 's Degrees

PhD Philosophy University of California, Berkeley
Masters Philosophy University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Philosophy University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Eric Todd Olson is an American philosopher who specializes in metaphysics and philosophy of mind. Olson is best known for his research in the field of personal identity, and for advocating animalism, the theory that persons are animals. Olson received a BA from Reed College and a PhD from Syracuse University. Olson is currently a professor of philosophy at the University of Sheffield.

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Eric T. Olson 's Published Works

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The human animal : personal identity without psychology (2000) (326)
The human meaning of total disaster. The Buffalo Creek experience. (1976) (238)
What Are We (2007) (162)
Living and Dying (1974) (136)
The Human Animal (1997) (133)
What Are We?: A Study in Personal Ontology (2007) (121)
Material Coincidence and the Indiscernibility Problem (2001) (79)
An Argument for Animalism (2003) (75)
The Extended Self (2011) (63)
The Human Meaning of Total Disaster. (1976) (63)
Was I Ever a Fetus (1997) (62)
There is No Problem of the Self (1998) (51)
Thinking Animals and the Reference of ‘I’ (2002) (47)
Animalism and the Corpse Problem (2004) (43)
The rate of time's passage (2009) (35)
Why I have no hands (2008) (34)
Ethics and the generous ontology (2010) (27)
The Ontological Basis of Strong Artificial Life (1997) (25)
What does functionalism tell us about personal identity (2002) (22)
Temporal Parts and Timeless Parthood (2006) (21)
Is psychology relevant to personal identity (1994) (21)
The Paradox of Increase (2006) (20)
Relativism and Persistence (1997) (18)
The Metaphysical Implications of Conjoined Twinning (2014) (15)
What Does it Mean to Say That We Are Animals (2015) (14)
The remnant-person problem (2016) (13)
A Compound of Two Substances (2019) (12)
The Epicurean View of Death (2013) (12)
Composition and Coincidence (1996) (12)
The Person and the Corpse (2012) (11)
Explorations in Psychohistory: The Wellfleet Papers (1975) (11)
Narrative and persistence (2019) (10)
Reply to Lynne Rudder Baker (1999) (10)
U.S. Special Operations: Context and Capabilities in Irregular Warfare (2010) (9)
Human people or human animals? (1995) (9)
The role of the brainstem in personal identity (2016) (7)
Immanent Causation and Life after Death (2016) (6)
In search of the simple view (2012) (6)
Book Review. Persons and Bodies: A Constitution View Lynne Rudder Baker (2001) (6)
Some of the Best Weapons for Counterinsurgents Do Not Shoot (The Letort Papers) (2010) (5)
Properties as parts of ordinary objects (2017) (4)
On Parfit's View That We Are Not Human Beings (2015) (4)
Consciousness and Persons: Unity and Identity, MICHAEL TYE. Cambridge, MA, and London, UK. (2006) (4)
The Ontology of Material Objects (2002) (4)
Life after death and the devastation of the grave (2015) (4)
The nature of people (2014) (4)
Self: Personal Identity (2009) (4)
Multi-Service Concept for Irregular Warfare. Version 2.0 (2006) (3)
HOW DO WE SURVIVE OUR DEATH? Personal Identity and Resurrection (2008) (2)
7. Personal Identity (2016) (2)
Contemporary Aristotelian Metaphysics: Identity, quantification, and number (2011) (2)
Précis of THE HUMAN ANIMAL (2008) (1)
Are People Animals (1999) (1)
The Zombies Among Us (2018) (1)
The Passage of Time (2009) (1)
Against Person Essentialism (2020) (1)
Personal identity and the radiation argument (2001) (1)
Lowe's Defence of Constitutionalism (2003) (1)
Identity, Personal Identity, and the Self, by John Perry (2006) (1)
Swinburne’s brain transplants (2018) (1)
X*—IMPERFECT IDENTITY (2006) (1)
Data Analysis (1999) (0)
What is the problem of biological individuality? (2020) (0)
Lowe's Non-Cartesian Dualism (2022) (0)
What am I? Free will and the nature of persons (2009) (0)
Psychology and Personal Identity (1999) (0)
Computer-generated Life (2005) (0)
Partial twinning and the boundaries of a person (2023) (0)
The United States and Tunisia: a foreign policy analysis (1985) (0)
Review: Peter van Inwagen and Dean Zimmerman (eds): Persons: Human and Divine (2008) (0)
1 The Paradox of Increase (0)
The Biological Approach (1999) (0)
Ben’s body reads the Guardian (2017) (0)
The Metaphysics of Artificial Intelligence (2018) (0)
Why We Need not Accept the Psychological Approach (1999) (0)
Personhood and the relation between metaphysics and value (2021) (0)
The Epicurean View of Death (2012) (0)
THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE FIRST-PERSON PERSPECTIVE (2007) (0)
Parfit’s Metaphysics and What Matters in Survival (2019) (0)
USSOCOM Fact Book: Special Operations Forces (2010) (0)
The Dualist Project and the Remote-Control Objection (2021) (0)
The Extended Self To appear in Minds and Machines (2011) (0)

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