The Myth of the Enduring Personality - Part IV

The Myth of the Enduring Personality - Part IV

Part I of the series here Traits of Temperament & Character At this point it may be argued that persistence or 'relaible' is the wrong sort of thing to constitute a fixed trait. We might divide the trait realm in to traits of character and traits of temprament. This is an argument favoured by Helen...

Introspection in to Consciousness

Introspection in to Consciousness

Hi folks, another excerpt from an interview where Sam Harris plugging his new book. His support for introspection as a valid scientific methodology, is something that Stevphen, Nick, Ciaran, and myself, among many others, have been banging on about for ages. To see one of the figureheads of the New atheist...

The Myth of the Enduring Personality - Part III

The Myth of the Enduring Personality - Part III

Part I of the series here The Self Delusion of Personality The traits that we use in everyday conversation appear in the form of a predicate in grammatical terms. That is, they form the part of the clause that describes the subject. So for example, we could say “John is shy” and the 'is shy' portion is...