Personal Identity and Self-Consciousness

Personal Identity and Self-Consciousness
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 254
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ISBN-10 : 9781134708017
ISBN-13 : 1134708017
Rating : 4/5 (17 Downloads)

Synopsis Personal Identity and Self-Consciousness by : Brian Garrett

Personal Identity and Self-Consciousness is about persons and personal identity. What are we? And why does personal identity matter? Brian Garrett, using jargon-free language, addresses questions in the metaphysics of personal identity, questions in value theory, and discusses questions about the first person singular. Brian Garrett makes an important contribution to the philosophy of personal identity and mind, and to epistemology.

Personal Identity and Self-consciousness

Personal Identity and Self-consciousness
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Publisher : Psychology Press
Total Pages : 137
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ISBN-10 : 9780415165730
ISBN-13 : 0415165733
Rating : 4/5 (30 Downloads)

Synopsis Personal Identity and Self-consciousness by : Brian Garrett

Personal Identity and Self-Consciousness is about persons and personal identity. What are we? And why does personal identity matter? Brian Garrett, using jargon-free language, addresses questions in the metaphysics of personal identity, questions in value theory, and discusses questions about the first person singular. Brian Garrett makes an important contribution to the philosophy of personal identity and mind, and to epistemology.

The Early Modern Subject

The Early Modern Subject
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 498
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ISBN-10 : 9780199542499
ISBN-13 : 019954249X
Rating : 4/5 (99 Downloads)

Synopsis The Early Modern Subject by : Udo Thiel

Udo Thiel presents a critical evaluation of the understanding of self-consciousness and personal identity in early modern philosophy. He explores over a century of European philosophical debate from Descartes to Hume, and argues that our interest in human subjectivity remains strongly influenced by the conceptual framework of early modern thought.

The Self in Question

The Self in Question
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 413
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ISBN-10 : 9781137290410
ISBN-13 : 1137290412
Rating : 4/5 (10 Downloads)

Synopsis The Self in Question by : Andy Hamilton

A humanistic account of self-consciousness and personal identity, and offering a structural parallel between the epistemology of memory and bodily awareness. It provides a much-needed rapprochement between Analytic and Phenomenological approaches, developing Wittgenstein's insights into "I"-as-subject and self-identification.

Self Consciousness

Self Consciousness
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 230
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ISBN-10 : 9781134889327
ISBN-13 : 1134889321
Rating : 4/5 (27 Downloads)

Synopsis Self Consciousness by : Anthony Cohen

Cohen establishes the importance of the self and argues that in order to appreciate the complexity of social formations, one must first take note of individuals awareness of themselves and as authors of social contexts and formations.

Consciousness and the Self

Consciousness and the Self
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 271
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ISBN-10 : 9781107000759
ISBN-13 : 1107000750
Rating : 4/5 (59 Downloads)

Synopsis Consciousness and the Self by : JeeLoo Liu

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.

The Naked Self

The Naked Self
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 275
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ISBN-10 : 9780198732730
ISBN-13 : 0198732732
Rating : 4/5 (30 Downloads)

Synopsis The Naked Self by : Patrick Stokes

Across his relatively short and eccentric authorial career, Soren Kierkegaard develops a unique, and provocative, account of what it is to become, to be, and to lose a self, backed up by a rich phenomenology of self-experience. Yet Kierkegaard has been almost totally absent from the burgeoning analytic philosophical literature on self-constitution and personal identity. How, then, does Kierkegaard's work appear when viewed in light of current debates about self and identity--and what does Kierkegaard have to teach philosophers grappling with these problems today? The Naked Self explores Kierkegaard's understanding of selfhood by situating his work in relation to central problems in contemporary philosophy of personal identity: the role of memory in selfhood, the relationship between the notional and actual subjects of memory and anticipation, the phenomenology of diachronic self-experience, affective alienation from our past and future, psychological continuity, practical and narrative approaches to identity, and the intelligibility of posthumous survival. By bringing his thought into dialogue with major living and recent philosophers of identity (such as Derek Parfit, Galen Strawson, Bernard Williams, J. David Velleman, Marya Schechtman, Mark Johnston, and others), Stokes reveals Kierkegaard as a philosopher with a significant--if challenging--contribution to make to philosophy of self and identity.

The Oxford Handbook of the Self

The Oxford Handbook of the Self
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Publisher : OUP UK
Total Pages : 759
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ISBN-10 : 9780199548019
ISBN-13 : 0199548013
Rating : 4/5 (19 Downloads)

Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of the Self by : Shaun Gallagher

The Oxford Handbook of the Self explores a fascinating diversity of questions about our understanding of self from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives, including philosophy, ethics, psychology, neuroscience, psychopathology, narrative, and postmodern theories.

Consciousness in Locke

Consciousness in Locke
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 257
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ISBN-10 : 9780198749011
ISBN-13 : 0198749015
Rating : 4/5 (11 Downloads)

Synopsis Consciousness in Locke by : Shelley Weinberg

Shelley Weinberg argues that the idea of consciousness as a form of non-evaluative self-awareness runs through and helps to solve some of the thorniest issues in Locke's philosophy: in his philosophical psychology and in his theories of knowledge, personal identity, and moral agency. Central to her account is that perceptions of ideas are complex mental states wherein consciousness is a constituent. Such an interpretation answers charges of inconsistency in Locke's model of the mind and lends coherence to a puzzling aspect of Locke's theory of knowledge: how we know individual things (particular ideas, ourselves, and external objects) when knowledge is defined as the perception of an agreement, or relation, of ideas. In each case, consciousness helps to forge the relation, resulting in a structurally integrated account of our knowledge of particulars fully consistent with the general definition. This model also explains how we achieve the unity of consciousness with past and future selves necessary for Locke's accounts of moral responsibility and moral motivation. And with help from other of his metaphysical commitments, consciousness so interpreted allows Locke's theory of personal identity to resist well-known accusations of circularity, failure of transitivity, and insufficiency for his theological and moral concerns. Although virtually every Locke scholar writes on at least some of these topics, the model of consciousness set forth here provides for an analysis all of these issues as bound together by a common thread.

Identity

Identity
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 169
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ISBN-10 : 9780198828549
ISBN-13 : 0198828543
Rating : 4/5 (49 Downloads)

Synopsis Identity by : Florian Coulmas

'Identity' as a concept has many faces, and its very versatility in different contexts can make it hard to define. Florian Coulmas discusses the many meanings of this slippery concept, considering why individual and collective identities are important to us, and discussing the problems asserting individual identities can create.