Y4: Self and Self-Location

What am I? Where am I? Am I? No, seriously, are there selves? What is a self? How is thought about myself (my self?) different from thought about other things? What can the distinctive nature of first-personal thought tell me about the world more generally? What can it tell me about my nature? Could I have been someone other than who I am? These are some of the questions we explore in this seminar (co-taught with Wolfgang Schwarz).

HANDOUTS

Handout 1: Notes on Garfield, Losing Ourselves, chs. 1-5; appendix

Handout 2: Notes on Nagel, The View from Nowhere, chs. 1-4; appendix

Handout 3: Notes on Merlo, 'Subjectivism and the Mental'

Handout 4: Notes on Fine, 'Tense and Reality'

Handout 5: Notes on Anscombe, 'The First Person'