Humanities

"Heikki Ikäheimo & Arto Laitinen: Editors' Introduction
Lynne Rudder Baker: Persons and Other Things
Eric Olson: What Are We?
Michael Quante: The Social Nature of Personal Identity
Dieter Sturma: Person as Subject
Robin Dillon: Arrogance, Self-Respect and Personhood
Andreas Wildt: Unconscious Knowledge of One’s Own Mind
Manfred Frank: Non-objectal Subjectivity
Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer: Persons and Practices
Shaun Gallagher: Moral Agency, Self-Consciousness, and Practical Wisdom
Heikki Ikäheimo: Recognizing Persons
Arto Laitinen: Sorting Out Aspects of Personhood

Introduction:
http://www.imprint.co.uk/pdf/14_5-6_introduction.pdf

http://www.amazon.com/Dimensions-Personhood-Heikki-Ikaheimo/dp/1845400860

Published also as a special issue of Journal of Consciousness Studies, Vol. 14., No. 5-6."

"...Analyzing recognition of persons in terms of recognitive attitudes has a number of useful features. First (2.1), it helps in distinguishing distinct attitudes of recognition from various kinds of complexes of attitudes. Secondly (2.2), it provides an easy way of distinguishing one-dimensional conceptions of recognition from multi-dimensional conceptions of recognition. Thirdly (2.3), it helps in distinguishing the attitudes of recognition from the various social and institutional spheres or contexts where recognition or misrecognition takes place. Fourthly (2.4), it helps in seeing how interpersonal recognition is related to action. Fifthly (2.5), it helps in getting a clear view of how attitudes of recognition affect our attitudes towards ourselves. Sixthly, (2.6) it helps in clarifying how exactly interpersonal recognition is related to statuses in different senses of the word ‘status.’...\

The book:
http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521864459

Reviews:
http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=12203
http://www.journaldumauss.net/spip.php?page=imprimer&id_article=227"

"In this article a wide range of candidates for features that are defining of personhood are conceived of as interrelated, yet irreducible, layers and dimensions of what it is to be a person in the full-fledged sense of the word. Three layers of personhood – consisting of person-making psychological capacities, person-making interpersonal significances, and person-making institutional or deontic powers – are distinguished. Running through the layers there are then two dimensions – the deontic and the axiological – corresponding to the recognitive attitudes of respect and love. These recognitive attitudes of ‘taking something/-one as a person’ are responses to the psychological layer and directly constitutive of the interpersonal layer of the respective dimensions of personhood. The multiplicity of ways to understand what ‘personhood’ means is only apparently chaotic and reveals, on a closer look, a well-ordered and dynamic internal structure."

"What exactly are the subjective features or capacities that distinguish humans from animals on Hegel’s account in the Encyclopaedia? Hegel demarcates sharply between animals and humans in a quite traditional way by saying that humans, in contrast to animal, are thinking beings. Also, according to what I take to be Hegel’s “official account” only humans have consciousness (Bewusstsein). My topic in this article is a serious problem that the latter thought involves. Considering what Hegel means by ‘consciousness’, the idea that animals wholly lack consciousness is incomprehensible. For if it were true, distinctively animal life were impossible."

The State of Personhood and its Future (in Finnish)

Mitä tarkoittaa että jokin on persoona? Mitkä olennot ovat persoonia? Ovatko eläimet persoonia? Entä vaikeasti älyllisesti vammaiset ihmiset? Voiko kollektiivi tai instituutio olla persoona? Tässä esseessä persoonan käsitettä ja persoonuuden ilmiötä tarkastellaan lähtemällä liikkeelle väitteestä jonka mukaan me kaikki olemme persoonia