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#741 Marya Schechtman: The Philosophy of the Self and Personal Identity

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Is the Self a Narrative?

Is the self a narrative because this is something that sometimes we hear from cognitive scientists but also philosophers of mind right yes well so I hold a narrative view of self. There's just this big divide over those who think that a self is sort of entity like you might think it's something like an immaterial soul and others just think being a self is a property that some other kind of thing might have. So there are a lot of complicated questions that arise if you want to defend that view obviously.

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