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YOU'RE AN ANIMAL, PLAIN AND SIMPLE

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 December 2013

Jimmy Alfonso Licon
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Abstract

In this essay, I argue that we are merely biological organisms. This view (animalism) explains everyday practices like watching ourselves in the mirror. The claim that we are psychological in nature – i.e. wherever our conscious experience goes, we follow – cannot explain something as trivial as watching ourselves in the mirror. Thus, we should accept animalism.

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Research Article
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Think , Volume 13 , Issue 36 , Spring 2014 , pp. 61 - 70
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 2014 

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1 van Inwagen, Peter. 2008. Metaphysics: Westview Press, 246–7Google Scholar.