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A Category of the Mind

In Michael Carrithers, Steven Collins & Steven Lukes (eds.), The Category of the person: anthropology, philosophy, history. New York: Cambridge University Press (1985)

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  1. “Ethics wars”: Reflections on the Antagonism between Bioethicists and Social Science Observers of Biomedicine1. [REVIEW]Klaus Hoeyer - 2006 - Human Studies 29 (2):203 - 227.
    Social scientists often lament the fact that philosophically trained ethicists pay limited attention to the insights they generate. This paper presents an overview of tendencies in sociological and anthropological studies of morality, ethics and bioethics, and suggests that a lack in philosophical interest might be related to a tendency among social scientists to employ either a deficit model (social science perspectives accommodate the sense of context that philosophical ethics lacks), a replacement model (social scientists have finally found the “right way” (...)
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  • “Ethics wars”: Reflections on the Antagonism between Bioethicists and Social Science Observers of Biomedicine1.Klaus Hoeyer - 2006 - Human Studies 29 (2):203-227.
    Social scientists often lament the fact that philosophically trained ethicists pay limited attention to the insights they generate. This paper presents an overview of tendencies in sociological and anthropological studies of morality, ethics and bioethics, and suggests that a lack in philosophical interest might be related to a tendency among social scientists to employ either a deficit model (social science perspectives accommodate the sense of context that philosophical ethics lacks), a replacement model (social scientists have finally found the “right way” (...)
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  • The Unmaking and Making of Self: Embodied Suffering and Mind–Body Healing in Brazilian Candomblé.Rebecca Seligman - 2010 - Ethos: Journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology 38 (3):297-320.
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  • The reflexive project: reconstructing the moral agent.Alfred I. Tauber - 2005 - History of the Human Sciences 18 (4):49-75.
    In the 17th century, ‘reflexivity’ was coined as a new term for introspection and self-awareness. It thus was poised to serve the instrumental function of combating skepticism by asserting a knowing self. In this Cartesian paradigm, introspection ends in an entity of self-identity. An alternate interpretation recognized how an infinite regress of reflexivity would render ‘the self’ elusive, if not unknowable. Reflexivity in this latter mode was rediscovered by post-Kantian philosophers, most notably Hegel, who defined the self in its self-reflective (...)
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  • More Things in Heaven and Earth: Spirit Possession, Mental Disorder, and Intentionality.Mohammed Abouelleil Rashed - 2020 - Journal of Medical Humanities 41 (3):363-378.
    Spirit possession is a common phenomenon around the world in which a non-corporeal agent is involved with a human host. This manifests in a range of maladies or in displacement of the host's agency and identity. Prompted by engagement with the phenomenon in Egypt, this paper draws connections between spirit possession, and the concepts of personhood and intentionality. It employs these concepts to articulate spirit possession, while also developing the intentional stance as formulated by Daniel Dennett. It argues for an (...)
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  • For Heaven-Human Conviviality: Reflections on Some ‘Ontological’ Narratives.Wang Mingming - 2023 - Theory, Culture and Society 40 (4-5):93-114.
    This article uses a Chinese narrative of ‘nature-human harmony’ as the main thread to connect the contributions of ontological anthropology. I argue that the best of the critiques of nature-human or nature-culture dualism in social anthropology propose rebuilding a world that ‘pursues harmony while preserving difference’ in the double sense of nature and culture. Given that most social scientific problems are indeed related to utilitarian individualism, I argue that research on ‘ontology’ should re-engage the ancient notion of ‘ ji’, construed (...)
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  • Democracy underwater: public participation, technical expertise, and climate infrastructure planning in New York City.Malcolm Araos - 2023 - Theory and Society 52 (1):1-34.
    This article provides an explanation for how increased public participation can paradoxically translate into limited democratic decision-making in urban settings. Recent sociological research shows how governments can control participatory forums to restrict the distribution of resources to poor neighborhoods or to advance private land development interests. Yet such explanations cannot account for the decoupling of participation from democratic decision-making in the case of planning for climate change, which expands the substantive topics and public funding decisions that involve urban residents. Through (...)
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  • The person of the category: the pricing of risk and the politics of classification in insurance and credit.Greta R. Krippner & Daniel Hirschman - 2022 - Theory and Society 51 (5):685-727.
    In recent years, scholars in the social sciences and humanities have turned their attention to how the rise of digital technologies is reshaping political life in contemporary society. Here, we analyze this issue by distinguishing between two classification technologies typical of pre-digital and digital eras that differently constitute the relationship between individuals and groups. In class-based systems, characteristic of the pre-digital era, one’s status as an individual is gained through membership in a group in which salient social identities are shared (...)
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  • At the margins of personhood: Rethinking law and life beyond the impasses of biopolitics.Ayten Gündoğdu - 2021 - Constellations 28 (4):570-587.
    Constellations, Volume 28, Issue 4, Page 570-587, December 2021.
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  • On the idea of person and the Japanese notion of ningen and its relation to organ transplantation.Enric Huguet Cañamero - 2019 - The New Bioethics 25 (2):185-198.
    It is not possible to talk about bioethics without recognizing the plurality inherent in it. In this sense, the notion of person is important due to its multiplicity of possible interpretations depending on its cultural context. This fact is highlighted in the case of organ transplantation in Japan. While there are many critiques against this procedure from scholars in various fields, those that deal with the problem of brain death are especially problematic. This is because the definition of person that (...)
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  • (2 other versions)Review Symposium.Donald R. Kelley - 2001 - History of the Human Sciences 14 (4):129-140.
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  • (2 other versions)Review Symposium - Roger Smith, The Norton History of the Human Sciences. New York: W. W. Norton, 1997.Donald R. Kelley - 2001 - History of the Human Sciences 14 (4):129-140.
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  • Powers of the Mask: Political Subjectivation and Rites of Participation in Local-Global Protest.Lone Riisgaard & Bjørn Thomassen - 2016 - Theory, Culture and Society 33 (6):75-98.
    Mask-wearing political protests have been global front page news for several years now; yet, almost no literature exists which attempts to engage the symbolic density and ritual role played by such mask-wearing acts. We argue that mask-wearing has political potentiality which relates to deeper-lying anthropological features of mask-wearing. The powers of the mask reside in the transformative ability of masks to unify and transcend key oppositional categories such as absence/presence and death/life, creating possibilities where conventional boundaries of the possible/impossible no (...)
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  • Flexible survivors 1.Emily Martin - 2000 - Cultural Values 4 (4):512-517.
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  • The category rogue.Jorg Kustermans - 2013 - Thesis Eleven 114 (1):3-14.
    As a concept of international society, the category ‘rogue’ can best be understood in relation to the more basic category of the person. Personhood signifies membership, and it is performed in collective, ritual, bodily practices. Modern personhood becomes individuated, and it values mind more than body. However, because it was soon realized that the modern person cannot ultimately sustain modern society, a new notion of personhood was introduced, which articulates a modern concept of virtue in terms of manners. Interestingly, this (...)
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