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Sessão 11 Am I a Biological Process? Hugo Luzio 02 de Maio de 2024 Abstract: Animalism is the view that each of us is a human animal. Most animalists think that ‘human animals’ are living things (or substances). Recently, however, some animalists argued that animalists should abandon their substance metaphysical framework in favor of a process one. In their view, each of us is not a living thing, but a living process. In this paper, I discuss one such challenge, recently presented by Anne Sophie Meincke (2021). I begin by presenting Substance Animalism (section §1), Meincke’s criticisms (section §2), and the alternative view Meincke proposes: Processual Animalism (section §3). Then, I defend Substance Animalism from Meincke’s criticisms. I argue that Substance animalists do account for the constitutive dynamicity of biological organisms that centrally motivates Processual Animalism. Moreover, I argue that Processual Animalism is metaphysically obscure and faces serious problems that Substance Animalism can avoid (section §4). I conclude by suggesting a conciliatory route between Substance and Processual Animalism (section §5). Calendário |
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