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CO-SPONSORED EVENTS HELD AT THE HUMANITIES CENTER
Narrative Conference: Narrative Self, Lyric Self, Absent Self: Literary, Psychological, and Philosophical Approaches to Self-Fashioning
Friday February 22, 2013 | 04:00 -08:00 PM | Stanford Humanities Center Levinthal Hall
Which is more important: the harmony of a soul or the arc of a life? Does unified selfhood mean overcoming inner division or does it mean overcoming change across time, linking together a series of discrete episodes into a single coherent narrative? And is unity (of either sort) something we should want in the first place?
Philosophers, psychologists, and literary theorists come together to discuss these questions at Stanford in February, 2013. At issue: what personal identity might consist in; why we might want it (or not); how literary models—both lyric and narrative—can help to guide us; and how much depends, in all cases, on other people.
* **Friday, February 22, 4-6:30 p.m.
* **1) Narrative Selves
* **Suzanne Keen (English, Washington and Lee)
* **Alexander Nehamas (Philosophy, Princeton)
* **Daniel Schacter (Psychology, Harvard)
* **Saturday, February 23, 10 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
* **2) Selves Without Stories
* **R. Lanier Anderson (Philosophy, Stanford)
* **Thomas Pavel (Committee on Social Thought, Chicago)
* **Winston Chiong (Memory and Aging Center, UCSF)
* **Saturday, February 23, 1:30-3:45 p.m.
* **3) Lives Without Selves
* **H. Porter Abbott (English, UC Santa Barbara)
* **Owen Flanagan (Psychology, Duke)
* **Elijah Millgram (Philosophy, Utah)
* **Saturday, February 23, 4:30-6:45 p.m.
* **4) The Role of Others
* **Alison Gopnik (Psychology, UC Berkeley)
* **Richard Eldridge (Philosophy, Swarthmore)
* **Alex Woloch (English, Stanford)
Levinthal Hall, Stanford Humanities Center
Narrative Conference: Narrative Self, Lyric Self, Absent Self: Literary, Psychological, and Philosophical Approaches to Self-Fashioning
Friday February 22, 2013 | 04:00 -08:00 PM | Stanford Humanities Center Levinthal Hall
Which is more important: the harmony of a soul or the arc of a life? Does unified selfhood mean overcoming inner division or does it mean overcoming change across time, linking together a series of discrete episodes into a single coherent narrative? And is unity (of either sort) something we should want in the first place?
Philosophers, psychologists, and literary theorists come together to discuss these questions at Stanford in February, 2013. At issue: what personal identity might consist in; why we might want it (or not); how literary models—both lyric and narrative—can help to guide us; and how much depends, in all cases, on other people.
* **Friday, February 22, 4-6:30 p.m.
* **1) Narrative Selves
* **Suzanne Keen (English, Washington and Lee)
* **Alexander Nehamas (Philosophy, Princeton)
* **Daniel Schacter (Psychology, Harvard)
* **Saturday, February 23, 10 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
* **2) Selves Without Stories
* **R. Lanier Anderson (Philosophy, Stanford)
* **Thomas Pavel (Committee on Social Thought, Chicago)
* **Winston Chiong (Memory and Aging Center, UCSF)
* **Saturday, February 23, 1:30-3:45 p.m.
* **3) Lives Without Selves
* **H. Porter Abbott (English, UC Santa Barbara)
* **Owen Flanagan (Psychology, Duke)
* **Elijah Millgram (Philosophy, Utah)
* **Saturday, February 23, 4:30-6:45 p.m.
* **4) The Role of Others
* **Alison Gopnik (Psychology, UC Berkeley)
* **Richard Eldridge (Philosophy, Swarthmore)
* **Alex Woloch (English, Stanford)
Levinthal Hall, Stanford Humanities Center
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The Calendar of Events lists events sponsored and co-sponsored by the Stanford Humanities Center. For a more comprehensive listing of university-wide events, see the Stanford Event Calendar.
The Calendar of Events lists events sponsored and co-sponsored by the Stanford Humanities Center. For a more comprehensive listing of university-wide events, see the Stanford Event Calendar.