Many Minds, No Persons
Many Minds, No Persons

Summary/Abstract: Four non-Cartesian conceptions of a person are considered. I argue for one ofthese, a position called animalism. I reject the idea that a (human) personcoincides with, but is numerically distinct from, a certain human animal.Coinciding physical beings would both be psychological subjects. I arguethat such subjects could not engage in self-reference. Since self-reference (orthe capacity for self-reference) is a necessary condition for being a person, nophysical subject coincident with another such subject can be a person. I takeall of this to support the view that we (human persons) are identical withhuman animals.

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