What matters in personal survival? What makes self-awareness possible? If there is no permanent self, should we be altruistic? These and other questions were tackled by the international participants in the 2018 Uehiro Graduate Student Philosophy Conference at University of Hawai'i at Manoa. Their responses explore the subject of subjecthood from interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives. Some approach it from an analytic point of view, others from a historical, and as many as five draw from non-Western traditions to argue their points.We have selected seven of the 21 papers presented at...
What matters in personal survival? What makes self-awareness possible? If there is no permanent self, should we be altruistic? These and other questio...