Eric Olson's Publications
Reviews, Interviews, Reference Articles, and Other Bits
books
The Human Animal: Personal Identity Without Psychology
New York: Oxford University Press, 1997
Named 'an outstanding academic book of 1997' by Choice.
Published electronically by Oxford Scholarship Online 2003.
Italian translation, L'animale umano: Identità e continuità biologica, McGraw Hill, 1999.
APA Author-Meets-Critics Session in Abstracta
What Are We? A Study in Personal Ontology
New York: Oxford University Press, 2007
Published electronically by Oxford Scholarship Online 2008.
original articles
Is Psychology Relevant to Personal Identity?
Australasian Journal of Philosophy 72, 1994: 173-86
Human People or Human Animals?
Philosophical Studies 80, 1995: 159-81
Why I Have no Hands
Theoria 61, 1995: 182-197
Composition and Coincidence
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 77, 1996: 374-403
Dion's Foot
Journal of Philosophy 94, 1997: 260-65
Was I Ever a Fetus?
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 57, 1997: 95-110
Reprinted in revised form in R. Nichols et al., eds., Philosophy Through Science Fiction, Routledge 2008 (link below).
Relativism and Persistence
Philosophical Studies 88, 1997: 141-62
The Ontological Basis of Strong Artificial Life
Artificial Life 3, 1997: 29-39
Human Atoms
Australasian Journal of Philosophy 76, 1998: 396-406
There is no Problem of the Self
Journal of Consciousness Studies 5, 1998: 645-57, and in S. Gallagher and J. Shearer, eds., Models of the Self, Imprint Academic 1999.
Reprinted in B. Gertler and L. Shapiro, eds., Arguing About the Mind, Routledge 2007.
Reply to Lynne Rudder Baker
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 59, 1999: 161-66
A Compound of Two Substances
In K. Corcoran, ed., Soul, Body, and Survival. Cornell University Press, 2001: 73-88
Material Coincidence and the Indiscernibility Problem
Philosophical Quarterly 51, 2001: 337-55
Personal Identity and the Radiation Argument
Analysis 61, 2001: 38-43
Thinking Animals and the Constitution View
Field Guide to Philosophy of Mind, 2001
What does Functionalism Tell Us about Personal Identity?
Noûs 36, 2002: 682-98
Thinking Animals and the Reference of 'I'
Philosophical Topics 30, 2002: 189-208
An Argument for Animalism
In R. Martin and J. Barresi, eds., Personal Identity, Blackwell 2003: 318-34.
Reprinted in P. van Inwagen and D. Zimmerman, eds., Metaphysics: The Big Questions 2e, Blackwell 2008; in M. Rea, ed., Arguing About Metaphysics, Routledge 2009; in J. Lizza, ed., Defining the Beginning and End of Life, Johns Hopkins University Press 2009; and in J. Kim et al., eds., Metaphysics: An Anthology 2e, Blackwell 2011.
Lowe's Defence of Constitutionalism
Philosophical Quarterly 53, 2003: 92-95
Was Jekyll Hyde?
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 66, 2003: 328-348
Warum Wir Tiere Sind
In K. Petrus, ed., On Human Persons, Ontos Verlag, 2003: 11-22
Animalism and the Corpse Problem
Australasian Journal of Philosophy 82, 2004: 265-74
Imperfect Identity
Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 104, 2006: 81-98
Is There a Bodily Criterion of Personal Identity?
In F. MacBride, ed., Identity and Modality, Oxford University Press, 2006: 242-259
Temporal Parts and Timeless Parthood
Noûs 40, 2006: 738-752
The Paradox of Increase
The Monist 89, 2006: 390-417
Reprinted in P. van Inwagen and D. Zimmerman, eds., Metaphysics: The Big Questions, 2nd ed., Blackwell 2008.
What Are We?
Journal of Consciousness Studies 14, 2007: 37-55, and in A. Laitinen and H. Ikäheimo, eds., Dimensions of Personhood, Imprint Academic 2007
Was I Ever a Fetus? (new version)
In R. Nichols et al., eds., Philosophy Through Science Fiction, Routledge 2008
The Rate of Time's Passage
Analysis 69, 2009: 3-9
The Passage of Time
In R. Le Poidevin et al., eds., The Routledge Companion to Metaphysics 2009: 440-48
Ethics and the Generous Ontology
Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 31, 2010: 259–270
Immanent Causation and Life After Death
In G. Gasser, ed., Personal Identity and Resurrection, Ashgate 2010: 51-66
The Extended Self
Minds and Machines 21, 2011: 481-495
Identity, Quantification, and Number
In T. Tahko, ed., Contemporary Aristotelian Metaphysics, Cambridge University Press 2012: 66-82
reviews, reference articles, etc.
Review of J. Dancy, ed., Reading Parfit
Philosophical Books 39, 1998: 252-254
Review of E. J. Lowe, The Possibility of Metaphysics
Mind 109, 2000: 967-69
Review of J. Wilson, Biological Individuality
Philosophical Quarterly 51, 2001
Review of L. R. Baker, Persons and Bodies
Mind 110, 2001: 427-30
Mind-Body Problem
In C. Blakemore & S. Jennett, eds., The Oxford Companion to the Body. OUP 2001: 469-70
'Reprinted' in Answers.com
Personal Identity
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy 2002 (revised 2007, 2008, 2010)
Reprinted in S. Schneider, ed., Science Fiction and Philosophy, Blackwell 2009 (translated into Arabic 2010, Portuguese 2011)
Review of H. Hudson, A Materialist Metaphysics of the Human Person
Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2002
The Ontology of Material Objects: Critical Notice of T. Merricks, Objects and Persons
Philosophical Books 43, 2002: 292-99
Personal Identity
In S. Stich & T. Warfield, eds., The Blackwell Guide to Philosophy of Mind, Blackwell 2003: 352-68
Review of J. Perry, Identity, Personal Identity, and the Self
European Journal of Philosophy 14, 2006: 434-7
Review of M. Tye, Consciousness and Persons
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 73, 2006: 500-503
Précis of The Human Animal and Replies to Critics
Abstracta Special Issue I, 2008: 5-7, 32-42
Review of P. van Inwagen and D. Zimmerman, eds., Persons: Human and Divine
Mind 117, 2008: 234-7
Pourquoi Nous Sommes des Animaux
Revue Terrain 52, 2009: 78-95
Self: Personal Identity
In W. Banks, ed., Encyclopedia of Consciousness, Elsevier Academic Press 2009
Interview
In A. Steglich-Petersen, ed., Metaphysics: 5 Questions. New York: Automatic Press 2010: 75-84
Personal Identity
Oxford Bibliographies Online 2011
Interview with 3:AM Magazine, May 2012
in press
Objects and Their Matter
to appear in R. Garcia, ed., Substance, Philosophia Verlag
The Person and the Corpse
to appear in B. Bradley, et al., eds., Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Death
Animalism and the Remnant-Person Problem
to appear in J. Gonçalves, ed., Metaphysics of the Self, Instituto de Filosofia da Linguagem, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Life After Death and the Devastation of the Grave
to appear in M. Martin and K. Augustine, eds., The Myth of Afterlife, McFarland.
The Epicurean View of Death
to appear in a special issue of the Journal of Ethics
In Search of the Simple View
to appear in G. Gasser and M. Stefan, eds., Personal Identity: Complex or Simple? Cambridge University Press
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