The state and the self: identity and identities

Here, Maren Behrensen facilitates a conversation between philosophy and the 'practitioners' of identity.

What makes a person the same person over time? This question has been studied throughout the history of philosophy.

Yet philosophers have never fully engaged with the 'practitioners' of identity, namely technology developers, lawyers, politicians, sociologists and applied ethicists.

The book offers an answer to the metaphysical question of personal identity and tries to show how this question is of immediate relevance to the various practices of identity management - particularly in the fields of administration, counter-terrorism activities and gender reassignment.