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Conventionalism about Personal Identity book cover

1st Edition

Conventionalism about Personal Identity

Edited By Alfonso Munoz-Corcuera, Nils-Frederic Wagner Copyright 2026
280 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

280 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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What makes someone a person—and what underlies their persistence over time? Philosophical debates about personal identity have long been divided between psychological and physical approaches, each seeking to ground identity in different mental or biological facts. Yet, this familiar dichotomy has led to a theoretical impasse, with neither side securing decisive support. In response, a growing... Read more

Acknowledgements

Notes on contributors

Introducing conventionalism about personal identity Alfonso Muñoz-Corcuera

Part 1: Metaphysics

1. What should conativists say about belief sensitivity? David Braddon-Mitchell and Kristie Miller

2. Person conativist animalism Hugo Luzio

3. The case for conventionalism about personhood Alfonso Muñoz-Corcuera

4. Death by 1000 endings Marya Schechtman

Part 2: Ethics

5. Arbitrariness and conventionalism about personal identity: In support of pro-arbitrary views Daniel Weltman

6. Signed, sealed, but still ‘me’? The conventionalist challenge to prospective autonomy Thomas Schirmer and Nils-Frederic Wagner

7. Social narrativity, dementia, and conventionalism Katherine Cheng

Part 3: Delimitations

8. Are Buddhists conventionalists? Mark Siderits

9. Homeostasis and human evolution: A social yet non-conventionalist argument on the persistence of persons Marcia Villanueva

10. Personal identity au naturale Shaun Nichols and David Shoemaker

Part 4: Criticisms

11. Why we are unconventional Simon Beck

12. There is no such thing as conventionalism about personal identity Eric T. Olson.

Index

Biography

Alfonso Muñoz-Corcuera is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. His primary research interest is personal identity, with a focus on narrative and conventionalist approaches. He also works on the philosophy of fiction, particularly the metaphysics of fictional characters and the nature of our emotional engagement with them.

Nils-Frederic Wagner is a research associate at the University Medical Centre Mainz, Germany. He has published at the intersection of medical ethics and empirically-informed philosophy of mind. His recent work focuses on the ethical implications of medical AI and on questions of agency and personhood. He coauthored a forthcoming textbook on medical and nursing ethics.

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