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- Title
Personal pronoun revisionism – asking the right question.
- Authors
Noonan, Harold W.
- Abstract
Personal pronoun revisionism (so-called by Olson, E. 2007. What are We? A Study in Personal Ontology. Oxford: Oxford University Press) is a response to the problem of the thinking animal on behalf of the neo-Lockean theorist. Many worry about this response. The worry rests on asking the wrong question, namely: how can two thinkers that are so alike differ in this way in their cognitive capacities? This is the wrong question because they don't. The right question is: how can they fail to be the same? From the materialist viewpoint shared by the animalist and neo-Lockean they can't. Personal pronoun revisionism is a consequence of their cognitive identity.
- Subjects
REVISIONISM (Christian theology); DOCTRINAL theology; HISTORICAL revisionism; COGNITIVE ability; THEORY of knowledge
- Publication
Analysis, 2012, Vol 72, Issue 2, p316
- ISSN
0003-2638
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/analys/ans037