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What makes someone a person—and what underlies their persistence over time? Philosophical debates about personal identity have long been divided between psychological and physical approaches, each seeking to ground identity in different mental or biological facts. Yet this familiar dichotomy has led to a theoretical impasse, with neither side securing decisive support.
In response, a growing body of work proposes an alternative framework, holding that facts about personal identity depend, at least in part, on our person-directed attitudes and practices. This view is commonly known as conventionalism about personal identity.
This volume presents the first comprehensive examination of this novel perspective. Bringing together some of the most influential philosophers in the field, these original essays explore conventionalism's metaphysical and ethical dimensions, its relationship to neighbouring views, and the challenges it must address as it continues to gain prominence in the personal identity literature.
Conventionalism About Personal Identity provides a timely and accessible guide to this increasingly influential approach. It will be of particular interest to scholars and advanced students of philosophy, especially those working on both traditional and emerging theories of personal identity.
Contents
Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introducing conventionalism about personal identity Alfonso Muñoz-Corcuera Part 1: Metaphysics 1. What should conativists say about belief sensitivity? David Braddon-Mitchell and Kristie Miller 2. Person conativist animalism Hugo Luzio 3. The case for conventionalism about personhood Alfonso Muñoz-Corcuera 4. Death by 1000 endings Marya Schechtman Part 2: Ethics 5. Arbitrariness and conventionalism about personal identity: In support of pro-arbitrary views Daniel Weltman 6. Signed, sealed, but still 'me'? The conventionalist challenge to prospective autonomy Thomas Schirmer and Nils-Frederic Wagner 7. Social narrativity, dementia, and conventionalism Katherine Cheng Part 3: Delimitations 8. Are Buddhists conventionalists? Mark Siderits 9. Homeostasis and human evolution: A social yet non-conventionalist argument on the persistence of persons Marcia Villanueva 10. Personal identity au naturale Shaun Nichols and David Shoemaker Part 4: Criticisms 11. Why we are unconventional Simon Beck 12. There is no such thing as conventionalism about personal identity Eric T. Olson. Index
