Featured Participants in the Symposium on Personal Identity Marya Schechtman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Illinois at Chicago Marya Schechtman is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she is a member of the Laboratory of Integrated Neuroscience. She focuses on the topics of personal identity, autonomy, practical reason, existentialism, and the philosophy of the mind and of psychology. She is author of The Constitution of Selves and several articles concerning topics such as personal identity and the philosophy of the mind. She is currently working on a project to investigate the relations between the sense of “identity” at stake in metaphysical discussions of personal identity and in the work of value theorists. |
