ALL 1475-C 12 Weeks Thursday 3:00-4:20 Start Date 29-Jan
Grossman 115 Limit 25
This course will examine a range of questions about social identity. Who are you? Is there some essence, like a soul or genome or a chain of memories, which maintains your personal identity throughout your life? What does it mean for someone to “identify” as a certain type of person? Could social identity be understood as a kind of overlapping between individuals? Can such questions shed light on current moral issues around nationality, race, class, gender, and family? The course will be part lecture with a lot of discussion. Readings from Plato, Descartes, Locke, Hume, Reid, Parfit, Nagel and others will be made available for free.
Coordinator: Theodore Everett 
Ted is Professor Emeritus at SUNY Geneseo, where he taught philosophy for 25 years before retiring with his wife to Brewster. This will be his third course at ALL.
Here Ted discusses his previous course “Understanding Disagreement.”
