The Priority of the Person: Political, Philosophical, and Historical Discoveries
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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
Essays in Honour of Derek Parfit: Normative Ethics and Personal Identity
I don’t see an OUP webpage up yet for this collection but this is a good preview. Brad HookerDerek Parfitethicsmoral philosophypersonal identity
Institutional Identity
The very excellent Joshua Rust has made this paper published in Journal of Social Ontology freely available. Derek Parfit famously sought to illuminate his account of personal identity by comparing a person to a club. If Parfit could use our intuitions about clubs to help motivate his neo-Lockean account of personal identity over time, which resists…
“You’ll look funny when you’re fifty”
H/T Gid. Check out the Jay Glennie-Sandy Lieberson interview here in support of this “coffee table” book. Donald Cammelljames foxMick JaggerNicolas Roegperformancepersonal identityphilosophical cinemaSandy Lieberson
The Self in the Age of Cognitive Science
The most excellent Rob Rupert has made his latest paper freely available. Abstract Philosophers of mind commonly draw a distinction between the personal level – the distinctive realm of conscious experience and reasoned deliberation – and the subpersonal level, the domain of mindless mechanism and brute cause and effect. Moreover, they tend to view cognitive…
Why Is Virtual Reality Interesting for Philosophers?
Thomas Metzinger in Frontiers in Robotics and AI. AIArtificial intelligenceCognitive scienceEpistemologyethicsmetaphysicspersonal identityphenomenologyPhilosophy of mindphilosophy of religionPolitical philosophyvirtual reality
Organisms and Personal Identity: Individuation and the Work of David Wiggins
Very pleased to come across this book on one of my favourite philosophers. Here too is Michael Ayers’ review. Adam FernerDavid WigginsmetaphysicsOntologypersonal identityphilosophy of biologysameness and substancesortals
Walker Percy Wednesday 185
What has this to do with existentialism? We will pass over the epistemological consequences of symbolic knowing, the possession of the thing by the symbol rather than adaptation by signal-a knowing which is indeed existential in the broad sense of knowing something by being something-and go at once to the more typical existentialia. The recognition…
Over and Beyond our Episodic Memories
A most elegant close-grained review essay of Mark Rowlands’ Memory and the Self: Phenomenology, Science and Autobiography by Christopher Jude McCarroll in The Journal of Mind and Behavior. [E]verything bears witness to what we are, our friendships and enmities, our glance and the clasp of our hand, our memory and that which we do not remember, our books…
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