Personhood Research Group
The Personhood Research Group investigates how personhood has been constituted as a set of protocols across different times, places, and disciplines; how related questions like "what is life?" interact with it; and how it is changing as a result of emerging technology.
Research Questions
- What is a person and how has that understanding been constituted differently in different times and places?
- What is life and how does it intersect with personhood?
- How do related disciplines like Animal Rights and Ecology understand subjecthood, in contrast to human personhood?
- How might prior personhood protocols be applied to AI?
We meet twice-monthly. A text (or excerpts) will be chosen and circulated in advance and the standard meeting format is 15-20 minutes silent review followed by 30-35 minutes discussion.
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To contribute to the site, put in a pull request on our GitHub repo.