Lecture: Carolyn Dicey Jennings: From Attention to Self


Friday, February 15, 2019
04:00 PM - 05:30 PM

 

Location:
Room 587, Humanities building
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Philosophy Department
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Philosophy Department
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(415) 338-1596

 

Carolyn Dicey Jennings, assistant professor of philosophy at University of California, Merced, provides a brain-based account of the self while avoiding the "homunculus fallacy." As she will argue, the existence of an emergent self with its own causal powers is the best explanation of the phenomenon of top-down control in attention.

 

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