This volume provides a genealogy of the concept of a person. By asking when and why the concept of a person came into existence, it explains what the concept of a person is and how it differs from the concept of a human being and the concept of a self.

• 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 and Julie Tennenbaum)


• Bibliography

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).