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For just this reason, Plumwood rejects the identity thesis and the notion of the Indistinguishable Self.
More generally, the identity thesis has drawn fire from other quarters.
Other opponents of the identity thesis include Giere (2009) and Beisbart and Norton (2012, Other Internet Resources).
One can find philosophers arguing for the identity thesis as early as Humphreys 1995 and Hughes 1999.
This conception of the self presumes what Plumwood calls an "identity thesis:" the human self is an ecological self.
On the former front, there seem to be two problems with Guala's (2002) argument against the identity thesis.
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The token-identity thesis has been the subject of a number of interesting criticisms.
Such criticisms become difficult to evaluate given Davidson's a priori procedure for establishing the token-identity thesis.
The token-identity thesis thus requires no empirical evidence and depends on there being no lawlike relations.
McDowell and Hornsby subsequently come to question the cause-law principle, which, when appended to the interaction and anomalism principles (both of which are accepted by McDowell and Hornsby) leads to the token-identity thesis they question.
A good way to see why analytic functionalists insist that functional characterizations provide meaning analyses is to revisit a debate that occurred in the early days of the Psycho-Physical Identity Theory, the thesis that each type of mental state can be identified with some type of brain state or neural activity.
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