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Tag: Daniel Dennett

Daniel Dennett’s and John Perry’s contrasting views on the nature of individual identity

Posted on January 8, 2019 by JL Admin

Being the same person from one day to the next means to carry forward a whole complex of characteristics across time. This essay will argue that self-identity is constituted of three key components, namely, mind, brain and body. Based on the essays by John Perry and Daniel Dennett, it can loosely be stated that individual…

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Where Am I? by Daniel Dennett

Posted on January 8, 2019 by JL Admin

Daniel Dennett’s essay is about the roles of brain, body and mind in self-identification. Dennett takes the reader through a list of dizzying circumstances in which the brain is separated from the body and yet the two are in communication through sophisticated technology. The central question in a situation like this is the location of…

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