In this course students will learn about the most important philosophical theories of the self with particular focus on the development of the concept of the self in ancient philosophy.
The course book is R.Sorabji, Self. Ancient and Modern Insights about Individuality, Life, and Death, Oxford 2006
Other literature includes:
Elizabeth Anscombe, ‘The first person’, in S. Guttenplan, ed., Mind and Language, Wolfson College lectures, reprinted in her Collected Philosophical Papers, vol. 2, Cambridge 1991.
Norman Malcolm, ‘Whether “I” is a referring expression’, in Cora Diamond and Jenny Teichman, eds., Intention and Intentionality, Ithaca N.Y. 1979, 15 –24.
Quassim Cassam, ‘The Embodied Self’ in S.Gallagher (ed), The Oxford Handbook of the Self, Oxford 2011, 139-56.
D.Parfit, ‘The Unimportance of Identity’, in Gallagher (ed), The Oxford Handbook of the Self, 419-41.
A. J. P. Kenny, ‘The Self’, the Aquinas Lecture, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1988–89.
A. A. Long, ‘Representation and the self in Stoicism’, in S. Everson, ed., Psychology: Companions to Ancient Thought, vol. 2, Cambridge 1991, 101–20, repr. in his Stoic Studies, Cambridge 1996.
G.Gill, ‘Being a Person and Being Human’, Ch.6 in Personality in Greek Epic, Tragedy, and Philosophy: The Self in Dialogue. Oxford 1996.
G.Gill, ‘Issues in Selfhood’, Ch.6 in The Structured Self in Hellenistic and Roman Thought, Oxford 2006, 325-407.