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August 10, 2020personal identity

The Priority of the Person: Political, Philosophical, and Historical Discoveries

Just released. david walshindividualitymetaphysicspersonal identitypersonhoodPolitical philosophy

June 30, 2020personal identity

Dislocating the self: The self is not in the brain, or the mind

Shaun Gallagher for The Institute of Art and Ideas. consciousnessEmbodied cognitionExternalismpersonal identityShaun Gallaghersituated cognition

January 21, 2017personal identity

Bernard Williams on living long and living well

David Galloway in Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice The ‘tedium of immortality’ agingBernard WilliamsbordomDavid GallowaydeathMacropulos Casepersonal identityPhilosophy of mind

August 3, 2013personal identity

A pattern theory of self

Another interesting paper by Shaun (OK, I know the image is associated with William’s classic work but I like the image and it’s salient). . CognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceExtended MindExternalismmetaphysicspersonal identityphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindShaun Gallagher

February 19, 2013personal identity

Self, No Self? Perspectives from Analytical, Phenomenological, and Indian Traditions

Coming very soon. Cognitive sciencemetaphyicsphenomenologyPhilosophy of mind

June 29, 2012bernard williams, brian magee, Descartes, moral philosophy, personal identity, philosophy

Bernard Williams

I’ve just had the occasion to read a posthumously published paper by Bernard Williams. One is reminded what a top-notch mind he was, steering a balance between the worst excesses of analytical philosophy’s logicism and continental obscurity, yet with devastating and readable arguments. (OK, I concede that the one exception is his incredibly dense but…

March 22, 2012metaphysics, personal identity, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, situated cognition

The Oxford Handbook of the Self

Here is a review of Shaun Gallagher’s door-stopper of a book – the publisher’s blurb and toc below. (I’ve just finished a paper for another collection that would have fitted in this collection since communitarian notions of identity seem to be missing). Research on the topic of self has increased significantly in recent years across a…

November 23, 2011Amos Tversky, behavioral economics, bounded rationality, brain science, cognition, cognitive science, complexity, Daniel Kahneman, experiencing self, happiness, hayek, Herbert Simon, memory, neurophilosophy, personal identity, rationality, reflective self, remembering self, self, self-deception, self-referentiality, thinking fast and slow, well-being

Daniel Kahneman on Cognitive Traps

Daniel Kahneman’s recently released book Thinking, Fast and Slow aimed at a popular audience is certainly generating a great deal of press, so far as I can tell, most of it very positive. Here he is outlining his experimental work in a Ted Talk. As a behavioral economist much of what he says about rationality will have…

June 6, 2011bundle theory, Galen Strawson, hume, metaphysics, personal identity, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, The Evident Connexion

Strawson’s Hume

Here is Galen Strawson‘s latest (book, not photo!!)

June 5, 2011Aristotle, david lewis, david wiggins, derek parfit, identity, Kripke, Leibnitz, metaphysics, personal identity, Putnam, quine, sameness and substance, sortals, sydney Shoemaker

Sameness and Substance Renewed

It’s been ten years since the release of David Wiggins’ Sameness and Substance Renewed. I notice that it has gone into a second edition, which is good news. This book must rate as one of my favourite works and I believe is somewhat neglected (I originally read S&S and was impressed that reading S&SR didn’t…