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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Quassim Cassam |
| ISBN: | 0198235402 9780198235408 0198238959 9780198238959 |
| OCLC Number: | 34973476 |
| Description: | viii, 208 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | The Exclusion Thesis -- The Self-Consciousness Argument -- The Objectivity Argument -- The Concept Version of the Objectivity Argument -- Quasi-Memory -- Geometrical Self-Location -- The Intuition Version of the Objectivity Argument -- Awareness of the Self 'Qua Subject' -- Immunity to Error Through Misidentification -- The Incompatibility Objection -- Core-Self and Bodily Self -- The Dispensability Objection -- The Unity Argument -- Unity and Objectivity -- Transcendental Self-Consciousness -- Personal Self-Consciousness -- The Identity Argument -- The First Concept Version of the Identity Argument -- The Second Concept Version of the Identity Argument -- The Problem of Misconception -- The Intuition Version of the Identity Argument -- Objections to (D2) -- The Fifth Response and (D1) -- Kant and the Identity Argument -- The 'Logical' Identity of the 'I' -- Reductionism and the Exclusion Thesis -- Reductionism and the Objectivity Argument -- Reductionism and the Identity Argument -- Reductionism and the Unity of Consciousness. |
| Responsibility: | Quassim Cassam. |
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<br>"Extraordinarily clear, thorough, balanced, accurate, and judicious. Cassam's book significantly advances our understanding of these questions."--Derek Parfit<p><br>"In this book Cassam argues for the thesis that a necessary part of being conscious of oneself as a subject of thought and experience is the being conscious of oneself as a corporeal object among others. The sustained and intricate argument refers both to such great predecessors as Descartes, Locke, Hume, and Kant and to many of our own contemporaries. Rarely, if ever, has the intractable problem of self-consciousness been handled with such thoroughness, subtlety, and precision. Dr. Cassam's book will be indispensable to any philosopher concerned with this difficult topic."--Sir Peter Strawson<p><br> Read more...
