Work in Progress: Muriel Leuenberger
Work in Progress Series
October 25, 2019
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Work in Progress Talk - Muriel Leuenberger (University of Basel): "Neural interventions – shaking the foundations of authenticity”.
Abstract:
The idea of authenticity includes some core assumptions about what a self is and to what degree we can change it. Neural interventions have an effect on authenticity within this framework. Crucially, they can also shake those foundations of authenticity. On the one hand, because of how neural interventions initiate changes they can undermine the basis of selfhood: the narrative perspective. On the other hand, they move the goalposts by resetting the constraints of what we can change about ourselves.
Date posted
Sep 25, 2019
Date updated
Oct 25, 2019