Can the Self be a Brain?

Alan Kenneth Schwerin

doi:10.5007/1808-1711.2015v19n2p235

Authors

Alan Kenneth Schwerin Professor of Philosophy, Monmouth University New Jersey, USA

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/1808-1711.2015v19n2p235

Abstract

Philosophical materialists suggest that a person can be identified with their brain. My paper is a critical investigation of this provocative thesis and an analysis of some of the prominent arguments to support this view. My overall argument is that there is more to this issue than some philosophers appear to acknowledge.

Author Biography

Alan Kenneth Schwerin, Professor of Philosophy, Monmouth University New Jersey, USA

Professor of Philosophy, President of the Bertrand Russell Society and author or 36 international articles in Philosophy. I am the author or editor of nine books, including my last book on Hume, Hume's Labyrinth: A search for the self.