2015 Spring Concepts of Self
Faculty Seminar: Ruqayya Khan
Self and Secrecy in Religion: An Islamic Contribution Ruqqaya Khan Associate Professor of Islamic Studies Claremont Graduate University This lecture is mainly interested in assessing the significance of secrecy and interiority […]
Read MorePublic Lectures: Peggy Phelan and Nancy Chodorow
Selfies: The Past and Future of Photographic Self-Portraits 2:30-4:00 p.m. Peggy Phelan Ann O’Day Maples Chair in the Arts and Professor of English and Theatre and Performance Studies Stanford University […]
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Public Lecture: Cressida Heyes
Dead to the World: Rape, Unconsciousness, and Social Media Cressida Heyes Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Gender and Sexuality and Professor of Philosophy and Political Science University of Alberta, Canada Recent […]
Read MoreFaculty Seminar: Julia Sushytska, Ph.D.
Between Humanism and Antihumanism: Mamardashvili on Becoming Human Julia Sushytska, Ph.D. Independent Scholar Our epoch has been marked by a debate of the end: the end of history, of narrative, of metaphysics, […]
Read MoreConference: Varieties of Self
March 6, 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. The Self in Confucian Thought Kwong-loi Shun Professor of Philosophy University of California, Berkeley After introducing the notion of the self in Confucian […]
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Public Lecture: Katherine Hayles
The Cognitive Nonconscious: A New Framework for the Self Katherine Hayles Professor of Literature and Director of Graduate Studies, Literature Program Duke University Recent work in cognitive neuroscience has identified a level […]
Read MoreConference: Humans and Selves
9:30-11 a.m. Libertarianism and the Problem of Flip-flopping John Martin Fischer Distinguished Professor Philosophy University of California, Riverside Fischer’s main topic here is one alleged cost of libertarianism: it […]
Read MorePublic Discussion: Jonathan Lethem and David Treuer
Humbert Humbert and Pnin: Vladimir Nabokov’s Two Authorial Selves (And Our Own) Jonathan Lethem Roy E. Disney ’51 Chair in Creative Writing Pomona College and David Treuer Professor of Literature and Creative […]
Read MoreFaculty Seminar: Ahmed Alwishah
The Concept of the ‘Self’ in Islamic Philosophy Ahmed Alwishah Assistant Professor of Philosophy Pitzer College In his talk Alwishah will examine the concept of the “self” and its relation to […]
Read MoreFaculty Seminar: Michael Spezio
A Self for Others: Models of the Self for Benevolent and Beneficent Action The cognitive science of moral action seeks accounts of moral cognition – and their conceptual and valuational structures – […]
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