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Roughly, animalism is the doctrine that each of us is identical with an organism. This paper explains and defends a hylemorphic version of animalism. I show how hylemorphic animalism handles standard objections to animalism in compelling ways. I also show what the costs of endorsing hylemorphic animalism are. The paper's contention is that despite the costs, the view is worth taking seriously.

There is no such thing as 'the' hylemorphic account of personal identity. There are several views that count as hylemorphic, and these views can be grouped into two main familiesthe corruptionist view, and the survivalist view. The differentiating factor is that the corruptionist view holds that the persistence of the soul is not sufficient for the persistence of the person, while the survivalist view holds that the persistence of the soul is sufficient for the persistence of the person. In this paper, I argue that hylemorphists should prefer the corruptionist view. This project ought to be of interest to anyone working on issues of personal identity, not only because hylemorphic views are historically important, but also because they are currently receiving significant attention in the personal identity literature.Hylemorphism-roughly, the view that material substances are composites of form and matter-is starting to get some serious attention. 1 As the recent literature makes clear, there are a number of quite different philosophical views that can sensibly be called 'hylemorphic'. In this paper, I will narrow the term in two ways. First, I will be speaking of hylemorphism only as it applies to human beings, not as a general theory of material objects. Hylemorphism as an anthropological position, like the more general ontological theory into which it fits, has received significant consideration recently. 2 But in anthropology as in ontology generally, there are various ways to be a hylemorphist. So the second way in which I focus my discussion here is by considering only those views that are influenced by St. Thomas Aquinas. When I use the term 'hylemorphism', then, it must be understood as so limited.Hylemorphists believe that human beings are composites of body and soul. 3 It is widely thought that hylemorphism also entails that once the body and soul separate at death, the human being they once composed no longer exists. The latter claim, however, has recently come under withering fire. Several philosophers argue that St. Thomas himself believed that human beings continue to exist after their deaths. 4 Alternatively, it has been argued that although St. Thomas himself denied that human beings exist after their deaths, contemporary hylemorphists should not follow him on that point. 5 There are a number of ways to explain the mechanism by which we supposedly survive our death. Eleonore Stump, for example, argues that living human beings are constituted by both body and soul, while human beings after

. Effects of coarse fragment content on soil physical properties, soil erosion and potato production. Can. J. Soil Sci. 87: 565-577. Most potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) production in northeastern America is on till soils with an abundance of stones. Stone picking has removed many coarse fragments to a point that it might be detrimental to soil quality. This study was to assess the impacts of coarse fragment content (10-19 mm in diameter) on selected soil physical properties, field soil thermal and water regimes, runoff and soil loss and potato yield and tuber quality on a sandy loam soil in New Brunswick. The objectives were to evaluate both beneficial and adverse effects of coarse fragment content (0, 10, 20 and 30% by volume) on soil quality in relation to potato production over a 4-yr period. Soil bulk density increased significantly by incorporating 10 to 30% coarse fragments into the plow layer. Porosity and available soil water-holding capacity were reduced in response to this increase in bulk density. In spite of the reduction in total porosity, pore size greater than 148 µm diameter of the 30% coarse fragment treatment was significantly greater than the 0, 10 and 20% treatments during 2001, 1 yr after the treatments were applied. This increase in macropores may have been responsible for the significantly higher saturated hydraulic conductivity of the soil treated with 30% coarse fragments. The results from 2002 and 2003 show that these beneficial effects on soil physical properties were short lived in this study; however, this may not be the case under field conditions because experimental plot problems of relocation of coarse fragments beyond plot boundaries and/or dilution with incorporation of stone-free subsoil material is not an issue in the field. Volumetric water content at field capacity of -33.3 kPa matric potential declined from 20.9% for the control to 7.7% for the 30% coarse fragment treatment. Cumulative soil heat greater than 10°C of the 30% treatment showed significant increases of 11.2, 8.8, and 3.7% during the growing season of 2001, 2002, and 2003, respectively, as compared with the control. Although field soil water tension regimes revealed that soil water in different treatments was held at a somewhat similar energy status, field soil water content was reduced considerably with increasing amount of coarse fragments. No significant differences in runoff and soil loss were found between treatments, but average reductions in soil loss over the 3-yr period were 9, 36, and 47% lower than the control for the 10, 20, and 30% treatments, respectively. Although no significant difference in yield and tuber quality between treatments was found in 2001-2003, both total and marketable yield decreased with increasing time. The yield reduction over time may be directly attributed to the mono-culture of potatoes practiced during the course of this experiment.Key words: Soil temperature, soil moisture, conductivity, bulk density, tillage erosion, potato cropping Chow, T. L., Rees, H. W., Monteith, J. O...

2008. Evaluation of fresh and aged clam processing wastes as potential agricultural liming materials for coastal area vegetable production soils. Can. J. Soil Sci. 88: 559Á569. Clam canning in New Brunswick generates 1800 t of clam processing wastes (CPW) annually. Thirty-year-old stockpiles of CPW must now be remediated to satisfy environmental regulations. This study examined fresh and aged CPW as potential agricultural liming materials for acid coastal vegetable production soils. Clam processing wastes were ground to three size fractions (B0.250 mm, 0.250 to B1.00 mm, 1.00 to B2.00 mm) and analyzed for calcium carbonate equivalent (CCE). They were then mixed with two soils of contrasting textures at three rates, in duplicate, and then placed in a control-plusfactorial pot experiment, with commercial agricultural lime of fine texture (B0.250 mm) as reference. During an 8-wk incubation, soil water pH and electrical conductivity (EC) were monitored biweekly. At 4 and 8 wk, a soil extract germination test was conducted using cress (Lepidium sativum L.) as an indicator plant. CPW of B1 mm raised soil pH with effectiveness increasing as particle size decreased. Application rates in function of the fineness to induce a given pH change (DpH) could be obtained using prediction graphs with high coefficients of determination (r 2 : 0.84 to 0.97). The average EC in all treatments to the end of the incubation period was B2 dS m(1 , indicating that salt stress is not a risk following CPW application to soil, since even sensitive crops are capable of withstanding such an EC. Seeding could take place between 4 and 8 wk after the CPW application to loamy sand with no adverse effect on germination index. In the loam soil, this period could safely be shortened.Key words: Clam, liming, soil pH, soil EC, cress, germination index Owen, J., LeBlanc, S., Toner, P., Nduwamungu, C. et Fava, E. 2008. É valuation des re´sidus de transformation des myes, frais et vieux, comme mate´riel de chaulage pour des sols coˆtiers utilise´s pour la production de cultures maraıˆche`res. Can. J. Soil Sci. 88: 559Á569. La mise en conserve des myes au Nouveau-Brunswick ge´ne`re chaque anne´e 1 800 tonnes me´triques de re´sidus de transformation des myes (RTM). On doit aujourd'hui assainir des piles de RTM datant d'il y a une trentaine d'anne´es pour satisfaire a`la re´glementation sur l'environnement. La pre´sente e´tude examine la possibilite´d'utiliser des RTM, frais et vieux, comme mate´riel de chaulage des sols coˆtiers acides servant a`la production maraıˆche`re. Des RTM ont e´te´broye´s en trois fractions granulome´triques (B0,250 mm, 0,250 a`B1,00 mm, 1,00 a`B2,00 mm), puis ont fait l'objet d'analyses visant la de´termination d'e´quivalents de carbonate de calcium (CCE). On les a ensuite me´lange´s, en duplicats, ad eux sols de texture diffe´rente, a`trois doses, dans un plan expe´rimental factoriel en pots incluant comme re´fe´rence la chaux agricole commerciale a`texture fine ( B0,250 mm). Au cours d'une incubation de huit semaines, on a surve...