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The Metaphysical Implications of Conjoined Twinning
Author(s) -
Olson Eric T.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
the southern journal of philosophy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.281
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 2041-6962
pISSN - 0038-4283
DOI - 10.1111/sjp.12073
Subject(s) - conjoined twins , nothing , crystal twinning , metaphysics , epistemology , philosophy , point (geometry) , mathematics , biology , anatomy , chemistry , microstructure , geometry , crystallography
Conjoined twinning is said to show that the number of human people—the number of us —can differ from the number of human organisms, and hence that we are not organisms. The paper shows that these arguments either assume the point at issue, rely on dubious and undefended assumptions, or add nothing to more familiar arguments for the same conclusion.