In philosophy, animalism is a theory according to which we are human animals. Animalism is not a theory about personhood, that is, a theory about what it means to be a person. Animalists could hold that robots or angels were persons without that contradicting their animalism.
The concept of animalism is among interests of philosophers Eric T. Olson and David Wiggins.
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