[PHILOS-L] University of Tartu Summer School: Who Are You? Personal Identity, Brains, and the Selves
Uku Tooming
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Who Are You? Personal Identity, Brains, and the Selves
Psychology & Philosophy Summer Course
UniTartu Summer School
University of Tartu, 27 July - 31 July 2026
Tartu, Estonia
Language English
Credits 3 EC
Fee info
700 EUR, Study materials, academic work with lecturers, Certificate of completion, and cultural events in the evenings.
190 EUR, Accommodation
NB! Early Bird deadline 26 March 2026
About
This intensive summer school explores the metaphysics, psychology, and phenomenology of the self through four interconnected themes: the nature of persons, the metaphysical status of the “remnant person,” disruptions of selfhood in depersonalisation and derealisation, and the idea of extended minds and selves. The course approaches these topics through the lens of contemporary debates in personal identity, including animalism, emergent personhood, the distinction between biological and ontological identity, and the developmental and cognitive requirements for being a person.
Course leader
Uku Tooming Associate Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Tartu, uku.t...@ut.ee
Sadaf G. Zaki Junior Research Fellow in Philosophy at the Chair of Theoretical Philosophy, University of Tartu, sadaf.gha...@ut.ee
Target group
bachelor’s, master’s and PhD students, lifelong learners
Course aim
- Understand the difference between what we are (human
organisms) and who we are (persons), and how personhood functions as a phase
stemming from a cluster of certain mental abilities rather than an identity.
- Analyse cases of fragmented or minimal selves, such as remnant persons,
depersonalization, and derealization, to see what they reveal about the
structure and limits of personhood.
- Evaluate the role of the brain in generating and sustaining personhood,
including how cognitive abilities emerge, decline, or divide.
- Assess whether the self or mind can extend beyond the organism through tools,
technologies, or social environments.
- Integrate biological, metaphysical, and psychological insights into a
coherent framework for understanding the self and its boundaries.
Contact: summer...@ut.ee
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