Paul F Snowdon

Gebundenes Buch

Persons, Animals, Ourselves

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

Paul F. Snowdon read Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at University College, Oxford, and remained there for the BPhil. He was appointed a lecturer in philosophy at Reading University in 1970, and became a Fellow and Lecturer in Philosophy at Exeter College Oxford a year later. In 2001 he became the Grote Professor in Mind Logic at University College London. He was President of the Aristotelian Society from 2003 to 2004, and has held visiting posts at Williams College in the USA, Umea University in Sweden, and the University of Otago in New Zealand.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 155mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780198719618
• ISBN-10: 0198719612
• Artikelnr.: 47868489