Persons, animals, ourselves
Auteur :
Snowdon, Paul F.
Éditeur :
Oxford University Press
ISBN :
9780198719618
Date de publication :
9 oct. 2014
Dimensions :
24,0 x 16,2 x 2,3 cm
Poids :
574 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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.