The Unity of a Person

Jörg Noller is lecturer in philosophy at the University of Munich, Germany. He wrote his dissertation on the problem of freedom after Kant, and his habilitation on personal life forms. He spent research stays in the USA at the Universities of Notre Dame, Chicago, and Pittsburgh. His main areas of research are personal identity, freedom of the will, philosophy of digitalization, and German idealism.

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