Among the many different accounts of personhood, that which links it with the activity of personation, as Hobbes called it, has a particular claim on our allegiance. It explains why we ascribe certain distinctive capacities to persons. And it enables us to vindicate the ways in which Charles Taylor connects being a person with interacting […]

Values are properties that are apt, like any desiderata, to trigger desire but are also fit in a special way to trigger it: they can vindicate as well as explain. It turns out that persons must treat various properties as values—deep values, as Charles Taylor puts it—if they are to personate. And it transpires in […]

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