In part three of Self and Other, which carries the title The Interpersonal Self, I return to the earlier established contrast between the experiential self and the normatively enriched and narratively extended self. We are here dealing with two notions placed at each end of a scale. On the one …
The following is a guest post written by Justin Broackes, who is Professor of Philosophy at Brown University, and has published extensively in the philosophy and science of color, among many other subjects. We’re very pleased to publish it here as a follow-up to yesterday’s roundtable discussion of what “the dress” has …
Today I will continue my discussion of Self and Other, and move on to the second part of the book which carries the title Empathic Understanding. My defence of a minimalist conception of experiential selfhood doesn’t merely target no-self accounts, but also the kind of social constructivism according to which …
Unless you have the good fortune to be shielded from the latest obsessions of social media, you heard last week about “the dress”, an image of a dress that some people see as white and gold while others see it as blue and black, with a few able to switch between the two …
Hi all, this should be great this year, Macquarie has a lot of good theorists in cog sci and psychology as well as philosophy: This year the Australasian Association of Philosophy meeting is being hosted by Macquarie University (July 5th-9th), which also boasts a philosophy friendly Department of Psychology and …
Self and Other is divided into what at first might look like three distinct parts. There are, however, a number of interlocking themes that run through the book and makes it into one interconnected whole. Let me today present some themes from the first part of the book that is …
Thanks to John Schwenkler for offering me this opportunity to share some thoughts regarding my new book Self and Other: Exploring Subjectivity, Empathy, and Shame (OUP 2014). Before going into some details about the book, let me just say a few introductory words about my own background. I have been …
