Self and World

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  • Engels
  • Hardcover
  • 9780198235408
  • 20 februari 1997
  • 216 pagina's
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Presenting an exploration of the nature of self-awareness, this book opposes the view that the self eludes introspection. It views that consciousness of our thoughts and experiences involves a sense of our thinking, experiencing selves as shaped, solid, and located physical objects in a world of such objects.



Self and World is an exploration of the nature of self-awareness. Quassim Cassam challenges the widespread and influential view that we cannot be introspectively aware of ourselves as objects in the world. In opposition to the views of many empiricist and idealistic philosophers, including Hume, Kant and Wittgenstein, he argues that the self is not systematically elusive from the perspective of self-consciousness, and that consciousness of our thoughts and experiences requires a sense of our thinking, experiencing selves as shaped, located, and solid physical objects in a world of such objects. Awareness of oneself as a physical object involves forms of bodily self-awareness whose importance has seldom been properly acknowledged in philosophical accounts of the self and self-awareness. The conception of self-awareness defended in this book helps to undermins the idealist thesis that the self does not belong to the world, and also the claim that the existence of subjects or persons is only a derivative feature of reality. In the final part of the book, Cassam argues that the existence of persons is a substantial fact about the world, and that it is not possible to give a complete description of reality without claiming that persons exist. This clear, original, and challenging treatment of one of the deepest intellectual problems will demand the attention of all philosophers and cognitive scientists who are concerned with the self.

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en
Bindwijze
Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum
20 februari 1997
Aantal pagina's
216
Illustraties
Nee

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Hoofdauteur
Quassim Cassam
Hoofduitgeverij
Clarendon Press

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Self and World

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144 mm
Product hoogte
17 mm
Product lengte
224 mm
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144 mm
Verpakking hoogte
17 mm
Verpakking lengte
224 mm
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386 g

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