Persons, animals, ourselves
Auteur :
Snowdon, Paul F.
Éditeur :
Oxford University Press
ISBN :
9780198769996
Date de publication :
30 mars 2017
Dimensions :
23,4 x 15,7 x 1,5 cm
Poids :
427 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.