# Who am I? A philosophical inquiry

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED-Ed
- Speaker: Amy Adkins
- Year: 2015
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Psychology and the brain, History, Philosophy, Literature and writing
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/amy_adkins_who_am_i_a_philosophical_inquiry)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Throughout the history of mankind, the subject of identity has sent poets to the blank page, philosophers to the agora and seekers to the oracles. These murky waters of abstract thinking are tricky to navigate, so it's probably fitting that to demonstrate the complexity, the Greek historian Plutarch used the story of a ship. Amy Adkins illuminates Plutarch's Ship of Theseus. \[Directed by Stretch Films, Inc., narrated by Addison Anderson\].

## Lectures

1. [Who am I? A philosophical inquiry](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/amy_adkins_who_am_i_a_philosophical_inquiry/25c96ed17c91), 5 min (TED's player)