Tag: social construction
Self-Evident
In this piece forĀ Aeon, Serife Tekin argues that contrary to antirealist perspectives emphasizing the illusion of selfhood, there is such a thing as the...
Consciousness: An Object Lesson
In this interviewĀ forĀ The New York Review of Books, Riccardo Manzotti puts forth a view of existence as relative. However, he argues, the fact that...
It’s Easy to Get Caught Up in Constructing Our Selves
In this video forĀ Aeon, clinical psychologist Daniel Brown discusses the ways that the construction of a fixed selfhood can limit the possibilities of our...
There is No Such Thing as the True Self, but it’s...
FromĀ The British Psychological Society: The idea that each of us has a true or authentic self is a very common belief in many different...
āThe Diseases You Only Get if You Believe in Themā
For The Atlantic, Julie Beck explores syndromes and ādiseasesā that are unique to particular cultures. She interviewsĀ Frank Bures, author ofĀ new book "The Geography of...
