Lectures on Personal Identity

Jakub Čapek

Phenomenology Research Center

Carbondale

February – April 2016

1. Introduction. Phenomenological Approaches to Personal Identity (SIU, Dept. colloquia series, February 4, 2016)

2. Experience. Cognitive and dispositional sense of experience. Acquired capacities and the self (PRG session, February 23)

3. Body and self. Phenomenology of the body proper and diachronic identity of person (PRG session, March 22)

4. Action and identity. Reflections on the claim that personal identity is “intrinsically practical” (PRG session, April 12).