Original scientific paper
Another Argument for Animalism: The Argument from Causal Powers
Jimmy Alfonso Licon
; San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California, USA
Abstract
The causal powers that I have, such as the ability to go to the store for cold beer, for instance are the same causal powers as those had by the human animal closely associated with me. That is, the biological organism that invariably stares back at me, whenever I look in the mirror. Thus, if I want to avoid gratuitous causal overdetermination – i.e. if I want to avoid positing two separate individuals with identical, and thus redundant, causal powers – as I justifiably do, then I should adopt animalism. That is, the view that I have the same persistence conditions as those had by a biological organism.
Keywords
Animalism; causality; exclusion argument; materialism; persistence-conditions
Hrčak ID:
93133
URI
Publication date:
30.11.2012.
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