Kingston Philosophy Café

Part of the Richmond Arts and Ideas Festival

A 1 hour talk from Jane O'Grady on the mind and selfhood.

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Writer, Journalist and obituarist, Jane is the cofounder of the London School of Philosophy. She has taught at City University as well as Birkbeck extra Mural. Apart from her many reviews and articles she is the author of The Enlightenment in the Philosophy in a Nutshell series. An inspirational lecturer she is a feminist and leading light in philosophy education.

Sometimes it seems almost New Agey to talk about ‘the self’, which is, after all, hard to accommodate in a scientific worldview. Some scientists and philosophers, in fact, declare our idea of having or being selves to be an illusion. I want to discuss whether, or in what way, saying that we are could make sense. I’ll look at what the self, is -- and has been -- thought to be, at the mind/body relation, and at what ‘being true to yourself’ might amount to.