John Schwenkler
John Schwenkler is Professor of Philosophy at Florida State University, and Humboldt Visiting Researcher at Leipzig University in Germany. He is the author of Anscombe’s Intention: A Guide (Oxford University Press, 2019), the co-editor of Becoming Someone New: Essays on Transformative Experience, Choice, and Change (Oxford University Press, 2020) and the co-author of Reading Philosophy: Selected Texts With a Method for Beginners (Wiley-Blackwell, 2nd ed, 2020).
Written by John Schwenkler
Goals and motivation
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How temptation works, and why it nearly stopped me writing this
Temptation can be sneaky – a rationalising voice that subtly undermines your resolve. But there are ways to outsmart it
by John Schwenkler
The self
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What does it take for someone to become a ‘different person’?
What does it really mean when you say of an individual that they are so transformed as to be a ‘different person’?
by John Schwenkler