Is there a real you?

Video of my TEDx Youth talk on "Is there a real you?"

Video - The Ego Trick at Hay

Video of my talk on The Ego Trick, focusing on the section on character, at the How The Light Gets In Festival in Hay earlier this year. (This video can be slow to load.)

The Ego Trick - RSA Video

A nicely edited video of my talk at the RSA on The Ego Trick.

The 4-minute Ego Trick

Talk on The Ego Trick at Ignite Bristol.

The Ego Trick - Video interview

Video interview by Jules Evans at The Politics of Well-Being blog about my new book.

RSA London - 26 May

Talking tomorrow at 1pm under the title What Does it Mean to be You? about my new book, The Ego Trick. Full details here.

The Ego Trick - Review in Intelligent Life

"Do you feel you have, at your core, some “pearl of identity”, unchanging from cradle to grave, and perhaps beyond? If so, where is it located? Peeling back layer upon layer of delusion, Julian Baggini argues that there is no such thing as the self; that we are all just fragmented bundles of perception and experience—and that we should be relieved to hear this. Baggini works on a broad canvas, citing Hume and Locke alongside the reflections of sex-change patients and victims of dementia. While leaving the ego in pieces, he gives your mind a thorough workout."

One of Maggie Fergusson's eight picks of the season in The Economist's quarterly Intelligent Life Books of the Season feature.

The Ego Trick

My new book is out. Here I'm going to keep a list of related links. For upcoming talks, click here. Click here to buy from Amazon or The Book Depository.

Reviews
"In this entertaining, educative and gracefully written book, Julian Baggini explores the question of the nature of the self and in what sense it persists through time. ... This is one of the best, most readable and most stimulating introductions yet written about this intriguing topic. Enjoy, and profit." AC Grayling in the FT.

"Baggini works on a broad canvas, citing Hume and Locke alongside the reflections of sex-change patients and victims of dementia. While leaving the ego in pieces, he gives your mind a thorough workout." One of Maggie Fergusson's picks of the Season in Spring's Intelligent Life

Articles by me
The blurred reality of humanity (Independent, 21 March)

The self: why science is not enough (New Scientist, 12 March)

Ideas for modern living: you (Observer, 13 March)

We’re more than the sum of our pasts (Sunday Herald, 6 March)

Audio
Start the Week with Andrew Marr, BBC Radio Four, 2 May

Guardian Science podcast with Alok Jha, 4 April

Nightwaves, BBC Radio Three, 24 March.

Video

The Ego Trick digested into 4 minutes for Ignite Bristol



A longer (20 minute) talk on the book given at the RSA



This short (3 minute) "home movie"introduces the theme.



This talk at the How The Light Gets In festival in Hay focuses on the issue of character.



Video interview by Jules Evans at The Politics of Well-Being blog

The Ego Trick - Review by AC Grayling

"In this entertaining, educative and gracefully written book, Julian Baggini explores the question of the nature of the self and in what sense it persists through time. ... This is one of the best, most readable and most stimulating introductions yet written about this intriguing topic. Enjoy, and profit."

AC Grayling reviews The Ego Trick in the FT (9/10 April)

Guardian science podcast

Talking on Alok Jha's programme about science and the self, as featured in my new book, The Ego Trick. More details and download here.