Persons, Animals, Ourselves

ISBN: 9780198719618 出版年：2014 页码：269 Snowdon, Paul F Oxford University Press

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.