title: What is a Human Being?: A Heideggerian View (Modern European Philosophy)
author:  Frederick A. Olafson 
description: "This book will surely play a dominant role in ongoing discussions of personhood and personal identity. The importance of Olafson's work lies in the fact that it bridges the gap between a broadly analytical approach to the nature of these issues and a phenomenological approach. Due to both its wide scope and its constructive nature, this book is uniquely equipped to appeal to any philosopher with an interest in the nature of human minds and persons." Choice<br /><br />"This book involves an admirable attempt to find a common ground with physicalist theories of human nature by phenomonological descriptions of knowing, feeling, and acting that dissolve mentalism. At the same time, it criticizes physicalist theories via a kind of transcendental argument since such theories overlook while presupposing the phenomenon of presence. Thus it draws well on the traditions of descriptive and transcendental phenomenology." Michael Barber, the Modern Schoolman
zlib_text: 278THE WORLD AT THE END OF TIME Frederik Pohi 279
  
  THE WORLD AT THE END OF TIME
  
  by Frederik Pohl
  
   **CHAPTER 1**
  
  Although Wan-To wasn’t at all human, he (or one might prefer to refer to him
  as “it,” but
  
  “he” was not an inappropriate pronoun) would have put that statement in a very
  different way.
  
  Wan-To would have said he was at _least_ human. He certainly had all the human
  characteristics that he would have considered worth having—if he had known
  that such a thing as the human race existed, which he did not. He was strong.
  He was intelligent. He had an inquiring mind—
  
  which meant he had a scientific one—which meant that, technologically, Wan-To
  was a very slick article indeed.
  
  He had, too, that quintessentially human trait that you never seem to find in
  things like tarantulas or termites. He had a hell of a great sense of humor.
  His idea of what was funny was not subtle. Basically, it was the pie-in-the-
  face or the pull-the-chair-out-from-under-you kind of thing. But that’s just