Reshaping The Self | Dan Zahavi, Lisa Bortolotti, Anders Sandberg

Philosophy For Our Times

English - March 30, 2021 10:55 - 46 minutes - 42.8 MB - ★★★★ - 260 ratings
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The notion that there is no self has won over philosophers and scientists since Hume argued that the self is nothing but a 'bundle of perceptions'. So is our experience of a unified, continuous self merely illusory? And if the self does exist, how should it be understood?

Joining us remotely to ask whether the self is an illusion is author of Self and Other Dan Zahavi, Philosophy Professor at the University of Birmingham Lisa Bortolotti and Research Fellow at the Future of Humanity Institute Anders Sandberg. Joanna Kavenna hosts.

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