Eric T. Olson Livres

Challenging contemporary views on personal identity, Eric Olson presents a novel perspective that centers on biological continuity rather than psychological connections. He contends that personal identity is rooted in our existence as biological organisms, asserting that survival does not depend on psychological traits. By rejecting well-known thought experiments, Olson posits that an individual could continue to exist even if all psychological attributes were lost, as long as the organism itself remains alive.

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Are we made entirely of matter, like sticks and stones? Or do we have a soul-- a nonphysical entity--where our mental lives take place? The authors Eric T. Olson and Aaron Segal begin this accessible and wide ranging debate by looking at the often-overlooked question of whether we appear in ordinary experience to be material things.