Carter W. R. Will I Be a Dead Person? / trans. from Engl. A. V. Nekhaev

Abstract

Eric Olsen argues from the fact that we once existed as fetal individuals to the conclusion that the Standard View of personal identity is mistaken. I shall establish that a similar argument focusing upon dead people opposes Olson’s favored Biological View of personal identity

Keywords

• personal identity
• corpse
• animalism
• psychological criterion
• psychological continuity