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Consciousness and the Self : New Essays

ISBN: 9781107000759 | 1107000750

Edition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr
Pub. Date: 1/31/2012

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Summary Table of Contents

New essays connecting recent scientific studies with traditional issues about the self explored by Descartes, Locke and Hume. Leading philosophers offer contrasting perspectives on the relation between consciousness and self-awareness, and the notion of personhood. Essential reading for philosophers, neuroscientists, cognitive scientists and psychologists.

'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 inabili... MORE

Acknowledgments	p. vii
List of contributors	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Awareness and identification of self	p. 22
Self-representationalism and the explanatory gap	p. 51
Thinking about the self	p. 76
Ordinary self-consciousness	p. 101
Waiting for the self	p. 123
I think I think, therefore I am - I think: skeptical doubts about self-knowl... MOREedge	p. 150
Knowing what I want	p. 165
Self-ignorance	p. 184
Personhood and consciousness	p. 198
My non-narrative, non-forensic Dasein: the first and second self	p. 214
References	p. 241
Index	p. 255
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