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Self and world

Author: Quassim Cassam
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
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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 idealist philosophers, including Hume, Kant, and Wittgenstein, he argues that the self is not systematically elusive from the perspective of self-consciousness,
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Material Type: Internet resource
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> Read more...

 
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