Was Jekyll Hyde?

Author: Olson E.T.

Source: Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 66, Number 2, 1 March 2003 , pp. 328-348(21)

Publisher: International Phenomenological Society

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Abstract:

Many philosophers say that two or more people or thinking beings could share a single human being in a split-personality case, if only the personalities were sufficiently independent and individually well integrated. I argue that this view is incompatible with our being material things, and conclude that there could never be two or more people in a split-personality case. This refutes the view, almost universally held, that facts about mental unity and disunity determine how many people there are. I suggest that the number of human people is simply the number of appropriately endowed human animals.

Document Type: Research article

Publication date: 2003-03-01

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