Consciousness and the self : new essays /

"'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...

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Other Authors: Liu, JeeLoo, Perry, John, 1943-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Jeeloo Liu
  • 1. Awareness and identification of self / David Rosenthal
  • 2. Self-representationalism and the explanatory gap / Uriah Kriegel
  • 3. Thinking about the self / John Perry
  • 4. Ordinary self-consciousness / Lucy O'Brien
  • 5. Waiting for the self / Jesse Prinz
  • 6. I think I think, therefore I am-- I think: skeptical doubts about self-knowledge / Fred Dretske
  • 7. Knowing what I want / Alex Byrne
  • 8. Self-ignorance / Eric Schwitzgebel
  • 9. Personhood and consciousness / Sydney Shoemaker
  • 10. My non-narrative, non-forensic Dasein: the first and second self / Owen Flanagan.