Eric T. Olson (philosopher)
{{short description|American philosopher}}
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{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2016}}
{{Infobox philosopher
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|era = Contemporary philosophy
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|name = Eric T. Olson
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|school_tradition = Analytic philosophy
|main_interests = Metaphysics
Philosophy of mind
Personal identity
|notable_ideas = Animalism
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Eric Todd Olson is an American philosopher who specializes in metaphysics and philosophy of mind. Olson is best known for his research in the field of personal identity, and for advocating animalism, the theory that persons are animals.{{cite encyclopedia|last=Blatti|first=Stephan|title=Animalism|encyclopedia=The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy|date=Fall 2020|editor-first=Edward N.|editor-last=Zalta|url=https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2020/entries/animalism/}} Olson received a BA from Reed College and a PhD from Syracuse University. Olson is currently a professor of philosophy at the University of Sheffield.{{Cite web|url=http://www.shef.ac.uk/philosophy/staff/profiles/eolson.html|title = Eric Olson | Philosophy | the University of Sheffield|date = November 25, 2021}}
Bibliography
- The Human Animal: Personal Identity Without Psychology. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.Reviews of The Human Animal:
- {{cite journal |last1=Stone |first1=Jim |title=none |journal=Philosophy and Phenomenological Research |date=2000 |volume=60 |issue=2 |pages=495–497 |doi=10.2307/2653504 | jstor = 2653504 }}
- {{cite journal |last1=Dainton |first1=Barry |title=none |journal=Mind |date=1998 |volume=107 |issue=427 |pages=679–682 | jstor=2660125}}
- {{cite journal |last1=Crocker |first1=Thomas P. |title=none |journal=The Review of Metaphysics |date=1998 |volume=52 |issue=1 |pages=161–163 |jstor=20131120 }}
- {{cite journal|first=Pascal|last=Engel|title=none|journal=Revue Philosophique de la France et de l'Étranger|volume=192|issue=1|pages=112–113|date=January–March 2002|jstor=41098955}}
- {{cite journal|last=Quante|first=Michael|journal= Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger|volume= 52|issue= 4|date=October 1999|page= 393|id={{ProQuest|1308429455}}|title=none}}
- What Are We? A Study in Personal Ontology. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.Reviews of What Are We?:
- {{cite journal |last1=de Gaynesford |first1=Maximilian |title=none |journal=The Philosophical Quarterly |date=2010 |volume=60 |issue=238 |pages=208–211 |jstor=40468295 }}
- {{cite journal |last1=Lowe |first1=E. J. |title=none |journal=Analysis |date=2009 |volume=69 |issue=2 |pages=388–390 |doi=10.1093/analys/anp021 |jstor=40607596}}
- {{cite journal |last1=Baker |first1=Lynne Rudder |title=none |journal=Mind |date=2008 |volume=117 |issue=468 |pages=1120–1122 |doi=10.1093/mind/fzn142 |jstor=20532722}}
- {{cite journal|first= James|last= Garvey|title=none|journal=Philosophy|volume= 85|issue= 332|date=April 2010|pages=299–302|doi= 10.1017/S0031819110000112|jstor=40666550}}
- {{cite news|first=Trenton|last=Merricks|title=Something to go on|date=January 23, 2009|newspaper=Times Literary Supplement|url=https://philarchive.org/archive/MERROE}}
- {{cite journal|first= Filip|last=Grgić|journal=Prolegomena|volume=9|issue=2|pages=344–349|year=2010|title=Review|url=https://hrcak.srce.hr/file/91440|language=hr}}
- {{cite journal|first= Michael|last=O'Rourke|journal=Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews|volume=2008|issue=3|year=2008|title=Review|url=https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/what-are-we-a-study-in-personal-ontology/}}
- Do We Have a Soul?: A Debate. With Aaron Segal. New York: Routledge, 2023.
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