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Eric Thor Olson (born January 24, 1952) is a retired United States Navy admiral who last served as the eighth Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) from July 2, 2007 to August 8, 2011. He previously served as Deputy Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command from 2003 to July 2007.
Eric Todd Olson is an American philosopher who specializes in metaphysics and philosophy of mind. Olson is best known for his research in the field of personal identity, and for advocating animalism, the theory that persons are animals. [1]
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Olson schloss 1973 die US Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, ab. Anschließend wurde er zum Offizier für spezielle Kriegführung (Naval Special Warfare officer) ausgebildet und diente in einem Kampftaucherteam (Underwater Demolition Team), einem SEAL-Team, einem SEAL-Delivery-Vehicle-Team, einer Special Boat Squadron und in der US Naval Special Wa...
Er hat einen Master of Arts in Nationalen Sicherheitsbeziehungen der Naval Postgraduate School. Er ist verheiratet und hat zwei Kinder.
Auswahl der Dekorationen, sortiert in Anlehnung der Order of Precedence of Military Awards: 1. Defense Distinguished Service Medal 2. Navy Distinguished Service Medal 3. Silver Star 4. Defense Superior Service Medal(2 ×) 5. Legion of Merit 6. Bronze Star 7. Defense Meritorious Service Medal(2 ×) 8. Meritorious Service Medal(3 ×) 9. Joint Service Co...
Flag and General Officer Announcements(defenselink.mil vom 10. Mai 2007, englisch)Navy Admiral Takes Helm of U.S. Special Ops Command(DoD.mil vom 9. Juli 2007; englisch)New SOCom CO says bureaucracy hurts terror war (Memento des Originals vom 13. Juni 2007 im Internet Archive) Info: Der Archivlink wurde automatisch eingesetzt und noch nicht geprüft. Bitte prüfe...30. Sept. 1999 · Eric T. Olson. Published: 30 September 1999. Cite. Permissions. Share. Abstract. This book argues that our identity over time involves no psychological facts. Psychological accounts of personal identity lead to grave metaphysical problems, and the arguments for them are inconclusive.
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Learn about Eric T. Olson, a Navy SEAL who became the first naval officer to lead the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM). He participated in the Battle of Mogadishu in 1993 and commanded the Naval Special Warfare Command in Coronado, California.
In his invigorating new book, Eric Olson investigates what we are, metaphysi. cally speaking. 'By "we"', he says, T mean you and me and the people we know?we human people' (p. 8). Olson emphasizes that his inquiry is not. anthropological or linguistic, but metaphysical. He asks what we most funda mentally are, not what we conceive ourselves to be.
Eric T. Olson is a philosopher of metaphysics and personal identity at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of several books and articles on topics such as animalism, soul, and partial twinning.
