The Interpersonal Self

Dan Zahavi: Self and Other / Emotion / Phenomenology / Self-consciousness / Social Cognition
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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 …

Another Look at “The Dress”: A Guest Post by Justin Broackes

Color / perception
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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 …

Empathetic Understanding

Dan Zahavi: Self and Other / Phenomenology / Social Cognition
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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 …

Philosophers on #thedress: a Brains Blog roundtable

Color / Consciousness / perception / Philosophy of Mind
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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 …

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