Epistemic Dimensions of Personhood

Abstract

he also serves as Director of the Marcus W. Orr Center for the Humanities and is an affiliate member of the Institute for Intelligent Systems. His work focuses primarily on personal identity and its relation to issues in ontology, philosophical psychology, philosophy of biology, and at the intersection of metaphysics and ethics. In addition to numerous articles, he is the co-editor (with Paul Snowdon) of Animalism: New Essays on Persons, Animals, and Identity (OUP, 2016).

Lived Religion. Proposal for a new, congenial definition.

“…So a person is located in a spatiotemporal way and a person has beliefs and concepts. A person is an agent engaging in that life-plan and in these choices (Evnine, 2008). A person is a being who can be addressed, and who can reply.…”

“…A person as a being of this kind is a 'respondent' (Taylor, 1995, 96). This means that a person has the ability to have thoughts about her being a person and about having beliefs and concepts in general and with regard to daily life practices in particular (Evnine, 2008). However, the matter is not just what a person is, but also who a person is.…”

Neo-Stoicism and What It Can Do

“…Hedden (2015b) at least thinks of expert deference as a replacement for Reflection, but others think Reflection just is a norm for deferring to experts. See, among others, Briggs (2009: 59), Christensen (2010: 135), and Evnine (2008). The use originates with Gaifman (1988). It's striking that nearly all of the discussion of Reflection has been limited to doxastic states, either credences or full beliefs.…”

Public law and the value of conceptual analysis

“…The concept avoids the ontological problems identified in an earlier paper where it was argued that one of the reasons public law excludes feminist critiques is that such analysis is viewed as being belief based (Mauthe, 2007). Belief is essential to the concept of personhood (Evnine, 2008), but in the context of personhood belief possesses a relational dimension. It does not focus exclusively on the self but entails a recognition of others and their beliefs.…”