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Was Jekyll Hyde?

2003; Wiley; Volume: 66; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1111/j.1933-1592.2003.tb00264.x

1933-1592

Eric T. Olson,

Mental Health and Psychiatry

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.