Chalmers Paper

Here's a link to the Chalmers paper which somehow came up in our discussion of Locke: [link]. From the conclusion:

"...what, finally, of the self? Does the extended mind imply an extended self? It seems so. Most of us already accept that the self outstrips the boundaries of consciousness; my dispositional beliefs, for example, constitute in some deep sense part of who I am. If so, then these boundaries may also fall beyond the skin..."

Winter 2008 Reading Group Schedule

Meetings are at 7 pm, somewhere in Stuart (usually the second floor lounge, sometimes in Stuart 101).

The topic for the quarter is personal identity. We'll read and discuss one paper at each meeting.
1/17 - John Locke, Of Identity and Diversity [link]

1/31 - Bernard Williams, The Self and the Future [link]

2/14 - Derek Parfit, Personal Identity [link]

2/28 - Christine Korsgaard, Personal Identity and the Unity of Agency: A Kantian Response to Parfit [link]

3/13 - Galen Strawson, The Self [link] (this meeting only tentatively scheduled due to its being during reading period)

Nathana suggests that it might be helpful and interesting to read the entries on personal identity in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, which are [here] and [here].

Also, Professor Anton Ford will hopefully be talking to us about Anscombe's paper on the first-personal pronoun--which we were going to read last quarter but decided to put off until this quarter--some time in February. The above schedule may have to be shifted around to accommodate this.

As always, newcomers are very welcome.