**** Please note that the date of this seminar has changed. It will now be held on Wednesday June 26 ****
\n\nI'm interested in two ways that the self enters into accounts of human action. \; According to what I'll call "the autonomy thesis\," a bodily movement or change only counts as an action if it stands in the right kind of relationship to the self. \; According to what I'll call "the authenticity thesis\," it is an ideal of human existence to act in a way that is true to the self. \; There are a variety of different ways to fill in the details of each account -- different ways\, that is\, to conceive of the "right" relationship of a bodily movement to the self\, or of what it means to be "true" to the self. \; In this paper\, I explore the existential-phenomenological approach to autonomy\, which departs in significant ways from more conventional analytic accounts of agency. \; Understanding this model of autonomy is the basis for explaining Heidegger's account of authenticity as self-constancy\, an ideal implicit in autonomy itself.
\nMark A. Wrathall is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California\, Riverside. \; He is considered a leading interpreter of the philosophy of Martin Heidegger and is the \;author of Heidegger and Unconcealment: Truth\, Language\, History (2010) and \;How to Read Heidegger (2005). He is also \;the editor \;or co-editor \;of numerous collections\, including A Companion to Phenomenology and Existentialism (2006)\, \;A Companion to Heidegger (2005)\, and \;Religion after Metaphysics (2003).
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