Speaker: Elijah Millgram

Personal identity - what it takes to be the same person over time - is best understood from what Dennett called the design stance. Rather than pursue traditional conceptual analysis - a list of necessary and sufficient conditions for being who you now are, later on - I'll develop a creature-construction argument turning on bounded-rationality constraints, and attempt to recover central features of personal identity. I will focus on the time it takes to complete investigations, the need to monitor other-things-equal inferences for correctness, and the imperative, within the context of protracted and openended investigations, for generic resources and strategic positioning.

Please note that these seminars are open to the public and in person only.