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Philosophical notions of the self
24 September 2025 All day
STRAND:WHO DO WE THINK WE ARE? The Self in Philosophy
SPEAKER: Jane O’Grady
Jane, who has spoken to us on many occasions, teaches at the London School of Philosophy and is philosophy obiturist for the Guardian newspaper. Jane has written several books and numerous articles. Two of her books are A Dictionary of Philosophical Quotations, which she co-edited with A.J. Ayer and her recent book Enlightenment Philosophy in a Nutshell, published by Arcturus.
Here are some details of the London School of Philosophy:
London School of Philosophy
https://www.londonschoolofphilosophy.org/autumn-2025/
The 2025 Autumn Term at the LSP begins on Monday, 29th of September 2025.
We would like to invite you to review once more the program of courses we are offering in the coming term.
As usual, if you’re interested in a course, please contact the tutor of that course for full details.
As always, we are offering a number of routes into current debate and exploration of the riches of the philosophical tradition, with a focus always on the current state of play in the discipline.
With our best wishes, from all of us at the LSP.
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Summary from Peter K, at the end of the term Philosopher’s Christmas term wrap-up:
“Are we separate from nature; nature of the soul/mind; Is the soul/mind eternal?”
Talk Slides and Notes:
None.
After Jane’s talk, Peter K commented in the PPG Facebook page:
A terrific talk from Jane O’Grady this morning, taking us from early ideas of the self in the Old Testament and the ancient Greeks, through to Descartes, Schopenhauer and Freud. She emphasised the different ideas contained within the one term, “the self”, including otherness and separation, self-awareness, survival after bodily death, a life force, a moral entity, a will and a complex entity with different structures within it.