n. 29/2025
pp. 196
ISBN paper version 9791259934055
ISBN pdf version 9791259934062
Personal identity has long stood at the crossroads of some of philosophy’s most vexed questions. What makes a person the same over time? What constitutes the unity of selfhood amid the flux of experience, the transformations of the body, and the shifting social worlds in which each of us is embedded? Philosophy has approached these questions from multiple angles—metaphysical, epistemological, ethical, and aesthetic. Yet new and pressing questions continue to emerge, particularly in light of contemporary challenges to the very notion of personhood: the rise of artificial intelligence, the politicization of identity, the fragility of memory and embodiment, and the pluralization of gender and social belonging.
This special issue of Phenomenology and Mind gathers a selection of contributions that engage with this multifaceted debate. The aim is not to provide a unified or definitive theory of personal identity, but rather to illuminate its constitutive tensions and its manifold developments. The collection brings together phenomenological analyses of subjectivity and embodiment; investigations into the relationship between self and experience, as well as mind and brain, in the process of perceiving one’s own identity and personal agency; feminist analyses of gender identity and gendered language; and, finally, aesthetic approaches that view art as both expressing and reshaping identity.
Francesca Cesarano, Marco di Feo, Eleonora Volta
Exploring Personal Identity. Philosophical Perspectives and Insights from the Arts
SECTION 1. RETHINKING PERSONHOOD: FROM SUBSTANCE TO RELATION
Edoardo Fugali
Embodied first-person perspective
Sofia Livi
Breathing postures
Stavros Panayiotou
A Levinasian critique of criterialism about persons
SECTION 2. METAPHYSICAL QUESTIONS ABOUT MIND, BRAIN, AND SELF
Andrea Bottani
On the substantive irrelevance of reductionism about persons
Alberto Barbieri
Grounding our sense of personal existence: how not to do it
Alfredo Tomasetta
Multimodality and no-self
Luca Zanetti
I am not the bearer of experience
Federico Zilio
Metaphysical accounts of personhood and their ethical implications for the vegetative state: A comparative analysis
SECTION 3. GENDER, INTERSECTIONALITY, AND THE RECONSTRUCTION OF IDENTITY
E. Díaz-León
Gender identity, first-person authority, and belief
Martina Giovine
Language and identity: the psychological implications of misgendering for trans individuals
SECTION 4. ART, AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE, AND THE PERFORMANCE OF SELFHOOD
Chiara Cappelletto
Why brain images are not representation of the self: the transparency of the brain/body/machine system
Lisa Sanguineti
Reclaiming the self. Redefining and affirming marginalized identities through contemporary art
Diletta Caimmi
Plural identities and collective authorship: group experiences in contemporary art
SECTION 5. FREE CONTRIBUTIONS
Federica Madonna
The overlap of mindreading and metacognition: an eliminativist explanation of cognitive empathy
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Giovine, Language and identity: the psychological implications of misgendering for trans individuals |
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