The Unity of a Person

With chapters by an outstanding international roster of contributors, this collection will be of great interest to those studying personal identity and the nature of the self in metaphysics, philosophy of mind and phenomenology.

Introduction Jörg Noller Part 1: Ontology 1. Personhood and the relation between metaphysics and value Eric T. Olson 2. The Hybrid Account of Personal Persistence Benjamin Curtis and Harold Noonan 3. Persons, Animals, and Persistence Paul Snowdon 4. The Thread of Persistence and the Persistence of Threads: A Process-Ontological Account of Temporal Personal Unity Godehard Brüntrup 5. What are Persons? Attempt at a Normatively Neutral Ontological Account Thomas Buchheim Part 2: Subjectivity 6. Personal Identity and the Transfer of Commitment Erasmus Mayr 7. Biological Subjectivity: Processual Animalism as a Unified Account of Personal Identity Anne Sophie Meincke Part 3: Intersubjectivity 8. Animals in Person Space Marya Schechtman 9. Personal Identity and Responsibility Kathleen Wallace 10. Coherence in the self-pattern Shaun Gallagher 11. Collective Intentionality, We-identity, and the Role of Narratives in the Constitution of Friendship Felipe León 12. A Person's Life: Uniting Metaphysics and Value Jörg Noller. Index