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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Animalism."”.
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Animals now and then.
… a clear discussion and adequate evaluation of animalism. To that end I develop a taxonomy of different varieties of animalism and argue that there are substantive differences between them. In earlier debates about animalism, the previously elided distinctions that my taxonomy makes clear create …
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Immaterialist solutions to puzzles in personal ontology
… I target two prominent materialist ontologies: animalism, the view that we are numerically identical to human organisms, and constitutionalism, the view that we are constituted by, but not identical to, human organisms. Because of the problems that arise from endorsing these ontologies, I …
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Reflections on Cultural Origins: The Visual Landscape of The Red Badge of Courage
… chapter two, while metaphors of mechanization, animalism, anarchy, mob violence, and class conflict are addressed in chapter three’s examination of the media’s sensationalist discourse and biased representations. Thus, I maintain that Crane’s innovative literary aesthetic does not reflect war …
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William Dean Howells and the New Science: Darwinian Evolution and the Rise of Realism
… If unsupported, altruism can revert to savage animalism; therefore, education must shape it. Additionally, a terminus of influence delimits the boundary beyond which the adult moral sense solidifies. Later in his career, however, Howells's attitude toward evolution exhibits a slow but steady …
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Personal identity and persistence over time : the hybrid view with regard to hylomorphism
… plausible. Chapter 4 brings both Eric Olson’s animalism and Lynne Rudder Baker’s constitution view into consideration, arguing that their theoretical innovations can be accommodated by the hybrid view. The hybrid view proposes that we are essentially embodied, thinking beings. It is thus both …