Why Does So Matter to Be a Dead Person?

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25206/2542-0488-2021-6-3-90-107

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animalism, biological approach, personal identity, death, corpses

Abstract

According to animalism we are identical with human animals. Our death coincides with the cessation of the functioning of an organism. Biological approach to personal identity seems to imply that the corpse causally connected to me (as an organism) is not me. In other words, there is no such an entity as a human animal that later becomes a corpse. It is so-called «the corpse problem». However, there are various views compatible with animalism, for instance the thesis that after death we can survive as corpses or souls. The main task of the article provides a critical analysis of these views.

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Andrei Viktorovich Nekhaev, Omsk State Technical University, Omsk, Russia

Doctor of Philosophical Sciences, Associate Professor, Professor of History, Philosophy and Social Communications Department, Omsk State Technical University; Professor of Philosophy Department, Tyumen State University; Research Associate of the Laboratory of Logical and Philosophical Studies, Tomsk Scientific Center, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, RAS.

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Published

2021-05-10

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Nekhaev А. В. (2021). Why Does So Matter to Be a Dead Person?. Omsk Scientific Bulletin. Series Society. History. Modernity, 6(3), 90–107. https://doi.org/10.25206/2542-0488-2021-6-3-90-107

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Vol. 6 No. 3 (2021)

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Philosophy

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