Losing the Person: A Metaphysical Foundation Versus a Convincing Philosophical Anthropology

What follows is a response to Fiona Hibberd's (2014, pp. 161-186) "The Metaphysical Basis of a Process Psychology." There is nothing necessarily wrong with insisting that everything in the world conforms to the same foundational metaphysics. However, the manner in which this insistence is played out by Fiona Hibberd leaves little room for a clear conceptualization and treatment of " the person acting in worldly context" as a focus of psychological inquiry. A comparison of Hibberd's metaphysics to Peter Hacker's philosophical anthropology of the person illuminates the shortcomings of the former.