Personhood as Relational
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This paper looks at using music as a spiritual practice for people living with dementia.
This paper considers the hotly debated issue of whether one should grant moral and legal personhood to intelligent robots once they have achieved a certain standard of sophistication based on such criteria as rationality, autonomy, and... more
At the age of eight, C.S. “Jack” Lewis suffered a massive blow with the death of his mother. In the grievous aftermath, his father, Albert Lewis, sent Jack off to boarding school. The impact of these losses had repercussions that shaped... more
In a friendly interdisciplinary debate, we interrogate from several vantage points the question of “personhood” in light of contemporary and near-future forms of social AI. David Gunkel approaches the matter from a philosophical and legal... more
Joseph Sverker explores the division between social constructivism and a biologist essentialism by means of Christian theology. For this, Sverker uses a fascinating approach: He lets critical theorist Judith Butler, psycholinguist Steven... more
Der Ausdruck „Personalität“ markiert ein Grundproblem der Philosophie der Person: Was macht eine Entität zu einer Person? Häufig wird diese Frage als eine Frage nach denjenigen mentalen Fähigkeiten verstanden, aufgrund derer eine Entität... more
The labeling of fellow humans as “cannibals” is a trope employed by people across the globe, often in an effort to cast doubt on the humanity of others. In this study I am interested in alimentation, and specifically anthropophagy, not... more
Paper presented at The Global Studies Association annual conference, The Cosmopolitan Ideal: Challenges and Opportunities, University of Roehampton, 10-12 July 2013.
В данной главе на основе феноменологического прочтения концепции "распределенной личности" Альфреда Гелла предлагается анализ аппрезентации Другого из опыта восприятия его тела. В такой перспективе "личностное" тело не может... more
Some Japanese go to shrine and pray for their happiness, luckiness, and safety. After pray, they bring a charm as protection from evil deeds. This practice is very common for Japanese especially for Shinto adherents. This charm called... more
This paper describes my experience of Chakrapani Ullal. Chakrapani was one of the great master's of vedic astrology..
Introduction Part One: Seeing. (Bruegel Allegory 1) 1. The Metaphysical Chiasm 2. The Existential Chiasm 3. The Aesthetically Chiasm Part Two: Hearing. (Bruegel Allegory 2) 4. Figures of Silence: Prelude 5. Language beyond... more
In traditional archaeological considerations of Iron Age and Romano-British landscapes, trackways are usually interpreted in largely normative terms, merely as means of getting from one settlement to another, or as purely functional... more
Personhood has become an important element of archaeological theory in the last two decades. Following C. Fowler's (2016) analysis, most approaches to the study of personhood conceptualise it through either a Single-Spectrum or a... more
A lo largo de las investigaciones en torno a gobernantes mayas, se tiene como base principal ubicarlos en una línea de tiempo referente a un sitio específico, fechas de entronización y/o muerte y su ascendencia y/o descendencia. Sin... more
The discipline of archaeology has long engaged with animals in a utilitarian mode, constructing animals as objects to be hunted, manipulated, domesticated, and consumed. Only recently, in tandem with the rising interest in animals in the... more
Now out in affordable paperback: https://bit.ly/3IoFe7Y Chapter 5 permanently available for free on the Routledge website via this link: https://bit.ly/38lPYXm "Ikäheimo develops a distinctive and cogent case for the centrality of... more
This is an English translation by J. PIna-Cabral of Part 1 of Henri-Alexandre Junod's ethnographic novel Zidji: A study of Southern African custom published in Neufchatel in 1911. It is a fascinating description of the Tsonga... more
In this chapter I explore how both anthropology and archaeology approach the study of relational personhood, focussing on the 'translation' of the concept into archaeology. In Strathern's terms (this volume) personhood can be seen as a... more
The history of Pauline research has uncovered, as well as created, several dualisms, false dichotomies and cul-de-sacs that have played and still play a role in various interpretations of Paul. Susan Eastman's Paul and the Person (2017)... more
This article suggests first that the concept of interpersona l recognition be understood in a multidimensiona l (as opposed to one-dimensional) , practical (as opposed to symbolic), and strict (as opposed to broad) way. Second, it is... more
Last Draft of the Paper commissioned for The Husserlian Mind. Edited by Hanne Jacobs. The Routledge Philosophical Minds Series. New York Routledge (forthcoming) Please cite accordingly. What is it that makes us unique as persons? And how... more
(From the introduction by the editors:) Volker Rabens untersucht in seinem Beitrag „Sein und Werden in Beziehungen. Grundzüge relationaler Theologie bei Paulus und Johannes“, wie in diesen Textcorpora Relationen beschrieben werden, die... more
Se distinguen los tipos de crecimiento en el hombre principalmente el orgánico, el de la esencia humana y el del acto de ser personal. Se propone la esperanza y el don como lógica del cre- cimiento del ser personal y a Dios como... more
Can we think of a Benedictine cloister around the year 1000 as reminiscent of a modern prison or a mental asylum? Was the monastery a medieval type of Erving Goffman's 'total institution' or Benthanian panopticon thoroughly structuring... more
Throughout the thesis I take symbolic communication and visual metaphors as starting points for developing a contemporary picture of diverse Craft practices in a small corner of Scotland. As a result, this thesis is both an ethnography of... more
"This volume contains the workshop papers of the philosophical conference Dimensions of Personhood held in August 13-15, 2004 at University of Jyväskylä, Finland. The conference was organized by the Finnish Academy research project The... more
Arendt’s phenomenology of the political puts persons at the center. It is persons who act and who become who they are by interacting with and appearing before others. By generating stories through their actions, persons gain their... more
Is there an ideal for inter-human relations? What I mean is not ideals, but an ideal, or rather the Ideal for inter-human relations in general. For many in contemporary social and political philosophy, as well as in the Frankfurt School... more
Die jüngere Forschung zur Philosophischen Anthropologie unterscheidet zwischen der Anthropologie als philosophischer Disziplin und als philosophischer Denkrichtung. In die anthropologische Auseinandersetzung mit dem Personbegriff sind... more
Humanity is on the threshold of recognizing the fundamental error in its view of life and death. Both death as well as active life is necessary to the vital formation of a larger, more essential whole. In this paper, I apply the sociology... more
The specific relationship that living individuals have to their surroundings is often explained in terms of their boundary. Two basic variants of this can be distinguished. While in the first variant the spatial boundary of living... more
Joseph Ratzinger and Alexander Schmemann, representing West and East respectively, share similar views of personhood and freedom. This similarity is evidenced both in their constructive construal of Christian freedom, and their... more
This chapter will focus on the importance of intersubjective attitudes of recognition for the basic structures of the life-form of human persons. The first section lays out three constitutive facts about this life-form which apply in all... more
Since John Locke, regnant conceptions of personhood in Western philosophy have focused on individual capabilities for complex forms of consciousness that involve cognition such as the capability to remember past events and one’s own past... more
In this article, I argue that rights-based claims deriving from the experience of disability have to be understood from the perspective of relational forms of personhood grounded in the developmental and embodied specificities of... more
Since ancient times, philosophers have pondered the question of what it means to be a person. David Hume observed that we cannot say much definitively about our world because we do not have other worlds with which to compare it. (Hume,... more
Die Philosophie der Person tritt mit dem Anspruch an, unser Selbstverständnis als Individuen artikulieren zu wollen. Wird die gängige Lesart von Personen als rationalen, selbstbewussten Individuen diesem Anspruch wirklich gerecht? In... more
This article examines the role of gender in the use of digital finance in Kenya, including the well-known case of mobile money but also the emerging use of smartphone apps, payment tills, digital credit services, and digital fund-raising... more