Consciousness and the Self
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Consciousness and the Self

New Essays

  1. 272 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Consciousness and the Self

New Essays

About this book

'I never can catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe any thing but the perception.' These famous words of David Hume, on his inability to perceive the self, set the stage for JeeLoo Liu and John Perry's collection of essays on self-awareness and self-knowledge. This volume connects recent scientific studies on consciousness with the traditional issues about the self explored by Descartes, Locke and Hume. Experts in the field offer contrasting perspectives on matters such as the relation between consciousness and self-awareness, the notion of personhood and the epistemic access to one's own thoughts, desires or attitudes. The volume will be of interest to philosophers, psychologists, neuroscientists, cognitive scientists and others working on the central topics of consciousness and the self.

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Year
2011
Print ISBN
9781107000759
eBook ISBN
9781139200349

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE SELF
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Contributors
  8. Introduction
  9. CHAPTER 1 Awareness and identification of self
  10. CHAPTER 2 Self-representationalism and the explanatory gap
  11. CHAPTER 3 Thinking about the self
  12. CHAPTER 4 Ordinary self-consciousness
  13. CHAPTER 5 Waiting for the self
  14. CHAPTER 6 I think I think, therefore I am – I think: skeptical doubts about self-knowledge
  15. CHAPTER 7 Knowing what I want
  16. CHAPTER 8 Self-ignorance
  17. CHAPTER 9 Personhood and consciousness
  18. CHAPTER 10 My non-narrative, non-forensic Dasein: the first and second self
  19. References
  20. Index

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