动物主义:当代人格同一性理论的新发展

Animalism: A New Trend in Theory of Personal Identity

动物主义是当代人格同一性理论的重要发展,其核心观点为人格的持存性条件即是作为动物的持存性条件。以奥尔森、斯诺登、布拉提等人为代表的动物主义者提供了思想的动物论证,胎儿问题论证,动物先祖论证等各种论证形式,它们遭到了来自于新洛克主义等多方质疑和批评。本文将考察各种论证与反驳的形式,并指出动物主义所面临的一般性问题是如何确定人格及动物的本体论地位。

Animalism is a new trend in contemporary theory of personal identity. Its enthusiastic proponents include Eric Olsen, Paul Snowdon, Stephen Blatti, etc. The main thesis is that the persistence condition of human persons is just the persistence condition of human animals. The arguments which support it, such as ＂thinking animal argument＂, ＂the fe＇tus argument＂, ＂animal ancestors argument＂, have been refuted by new - Loekeanism and other views. This article explored the arguments for or against animalism and supposed that one of the general problems which animalism has to confront is how to determine the ontological status of persons and animals.