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	FACULTY GRADUATE STUDENTS EVENTS CALENDAR UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM GRADUATE PROGRAM CONTACT US APPLY MASTER SCHEDULE UNIVERSITY CALENDARS USC LIBRARIES ABOUT COLUMBIA SC Search USC   THIS SITE RESTRICTED ACCESS:   Faculty | Graduate Students   Blackboard   VIP   Student Email   Faculty/Staff Email		COLLOQUIA & CONFERENCES    FLYER A NATURAL HISTORY OF THE SELF   John Doris Department of Philosophy Washington University, St. Louis   February 13, 2009 Friday, 3:30pm-5:00pm Wardlaw College, room 126   In philosophy, persons are often distinguished by a propensity for reflection — a conscious and concerted mentation effecting control of behavior. In psychology, research on unconscious processing suggests that this philosophical conception of persons is unrealistic; ethically significant human behavior is very often beyond reflective control. A psychologically lifelike conception of persons will therefore de-emphasize reflective control; instead, the human ethical distinctiveness marked with such philosophical honorifics as "person," "agency," "practical rationality," and "the self" is found in the collaboratively developed rationalizing explanations of behavior by which humans living in groups regulate their lives.
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