Philosophy Seminar Series: Clas Weber (University of Western Australia) – School of Humanities Philosophy Seminar Series: Clas Weber (University of Western Australia) – School of Humanities

Philosophy Seminar Series: Clas Weber (University of Western Australia)

Philosophy Seminar Series

Determinacy of the Self and Imagination from the Inside

Clas Weber, University of Western Australia | 3:30pm, 26 April, 2023

The persistence of ordinary objects allows for indeterminacy. There is a strong intuition that our own persistence in contrast has to be determinate. The determinacy intuition conflicts with a commonsense view of human persons. In this talk, I offer an account of the source of the determinacy intuition which grounds it in the special character of first-person imagination. In short, we are inclined to believe that our persistence must be determinate because we cannot imagine indeterminate survival from the first-person perspective. I then explore the implications of this account for the metaphysics of the self. I make the case that indeterminate survival may be a genuine possibility for us in spite of our inability to imagine it from the inside. Hence, the account proposed here allows us to debunk the intuition and maintain a commonsense view of ourselves.

 

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Date

Apr 26 2023
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Time

AEDT. UTC/GMT +10
3:30 pm
Category

Organizer

Philosophy
Website
http://sydney.edu.au/arts/philosophy

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