Episodic Self and Culture: G. Strawson, K. Wilkes and M. Schechtman

Abstract:

Gallen Strawson has played the leading role in the assault to the notion of narrative self. His theory has respected phenomenological variety of the self, but he has also held an episodic ontology, which claims for a three seconds duration of the self. This article aims to show the implications of this Theory of Mind debate in our cultural conception of the self, and the link between the strawsonian ontologically anti-narrative notion and Lipovetsky’s sociological approach to the self

Key words:

Gallen Strawson, K. Wilkes, M. Schechtman, narrative, self, episodic self