Overview
Description
The course examines a range of theories regarding the self, as separate authentic, interdependent, performative, somatic, and/or fictitious entity. We adopt an interdisciplinary approach, engaging with Anglo-American/European Philosophy, Cognitive Science, Psychology (including psychoanalytic theory), and Asian (Indian) Philosophy.
Requirements
Prerequisites
- General Education courses (CO1-CO3) completed
- at least 3 courses from CO4-CO8 completed
- Junior or Senior standing
Original catalog text
Prerequisites
General Education courses (CO1-CO3) completed; at least 3 courses from CO4-CO8 completed; Junior or Senior standing.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall - Odd Years
Terms
fall
Core
CO13
Restrictions
Junior or Senior standing
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- assess a thesis about the self and critically analyze evidence and argument for the thesis drawing from the philosophical and interdisciplinary literatures.
- appraise some of the principal concepts associated with different psychological, world philosophical traditions (e.g. phenomenological, Hindu, Buddhist and/or others) and Anglo-American philosophical accounts of the self.
- identify and compare different elements in the concept of the self as understood in more than one cultural or intellectual tradition.
- synthesize interdisciplinary research on the self and analyze its relevance to philosophical accounts of our sense of self.