Persons A History

Antonia LoLordo is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Virginia. She specializes in early modern philosophy. She is the author of Locke's Moral Man (Oxford, 2012) and Pierre Gassendi and the Birth of Early Modern Philosophy (Cambridge, 2007).

Introduction

Part I
Chapter 1. Funerals, Faces, and Hellenistic Philosophers: On the Origins of the Concept of Persons in Rome (René Brouwer)

Reflection - The Minotaur (Greg Hays)

Chapter 2. Persons in Patristic and Medieval Christian Theology (Scott Williams)

Part II
Chapter 3. Persons in Islamicate Philosophy from Sina to Sabzavari (Anthony F. Shaker)
Chapter 4. Medieval Mystics on Persons: What John Locke Didn't Tell You (Christina Van Dyke)
Chapter 5. Persons in 17th and 18th Century British Philosophy (Antonia LoLordo)

Reflection - Persons as Food in Voltaire's Candide (Jennifer Tsien)

Chapter 6. The Concept of a Person in 18th Century German Philosophy: Leibniz - Wolff - Kant (Udo Thiel)
Chapter 7. The Concept of Persons in Kant and Fichte (Owen Ware)

Part III
Chapter 8. Persons in 20th and 21st Century Anglophone Philosophy (Aaron Preston)
Chapter 9. Persons and Selves in Buddhist Philosophy (Mark Siderits)

Reflection - Ghosts in their Shells (Sylvia Shin Huey Chong)

Chapter 10. Persons and Moral Status (Agnieszka Jaworska & Julie Tennenbaum)

Bibliography