PPIG
Transformative embodiment and the self Why you are and aren't your body
Miriam Kyselo
Abstract:
In my talk I will critically discuss the concept of the minimal self, according to which basic selfhood remains essentially independent of social interactions and relations. Relying on the notion of enactive autonomy and phenomenological views of human existence as primordially social, I will argue for the contrary: the self is fundamentally relational, both from an ontological and experiential perspective. I indicate how a strong relational view of selfhood can serve as a preliminary heuristic to make sense of selfhood in patients with severe bodily impairment (locked-in syndrome).
@ 17.10-18.30 in Dugald Stewart Building, room 1.20
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Miriam Kyselo is visiting Professor of Philosophy of Cognition at the Technical University of Berlin, where she leads the Inter-Self Lab. She is also a Principal Investigator in Science of Intelligence (SCIoI), an interdisciplinary research cluster funded by Germany’s Excellence Strategy Program. Her research focusses on advancing an integrative and interdisciplinary approach to the bodily and social self and on helping to better understand the dynamics between self and social cognition. https://miriamkyselo.wordpress.com/