L'œuvre de Marya Schechtman se concentre sur la philosophie de l'identité personnelle, explorant les liens profonds entre les questions éthiques et métaphysiques de ce qui fait de nous ce que nous sommes. Ses recherches portent sur le raisonnement pratique et la philosophie de l'esprit, avec un vif intérêt pour l'existentialisme, la bioéthique et l'intersection de la philosophie et de la technologie. L'approche de Schechtman offre une perspective unique sur la nature du soi et sa formation complexe.
Marya Schechtman offers a new theory of personal identity, which captures the importance of being able to reidentify people in our daily lives. She sees persons as loci of practical interaction, and defines the unity of such a locus in terms of biological, psychological, and social functions, mediated through social and cultural infrastructure.
An amnesia victim asking Who am I? means something different from a confused adolescent asking the same question. Marya Schechtman takes issue with analytic philosophy's emphasis on the first sort of question to the exclusion of the second. The...
This VSI is a multidisciplinary approach to central questions about the nature and existence of the self. It engages millennia-old questions about the self as well as modern research to produce new perspectives on both academic questions about the self and the more immediate practical, everyday puzzles about the self that concern us all.