I thought it would be useful to gather into one post links, in order, to the various posts from the recent personhood discussion.
1. On Being a Human Person (Siris)
2. What Is a "Person"? (Under the Sun)
3. On being a person (prosthesis)
4. Humunculi in the Forebrain (Siris)
5. Humanness and Persons (Mormon Metaphysics)
6. Higher Brain Death and Personhood (Mixing Memory)
7. Higher Brain Death and Personhood (Siris; the post doesn't add anything, but there are comments)
8. Who speaks for the res extensa? (Fido the Yak)
9. Personhood and Loci Communes (Siris)
10. Soulless Materialism (Philosophy, etc.)
11. Person as an Analogous Term (Vomit the Lukewarm)
12. Ghost in the Machine (North Western Winds)
13. Higher Brain Death and Personhood Revisited (Mixing Memory; this had a link in the Philosophers' Carnival (#12))
14. Higher Brain Death and Personhood III (Mixing Memory)
15. Self-Sacrificial Euthanasia (Ralph the Sacred River)
16. Encased in the Flesh (North Western Winds)
If I've forgotten any, let me know, and I'll add them. I'll also add any additional ones, if there are any (I'm not sure I have anything more to say without leaving my original primary focus on moral reasoning rather than metaphysics; but that might change). One of the cool things about this exchange is that almost all of the posts say something worth reading, even if only to disagree with it; and the weblogs over which it has ranged have been fairly diverse in nature.
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17. Persons, other and otherwise (Fido the Yak; gives some recommended reading on the subject, including an online text by Masahiro Morioka)
