The Self : Naturalism, Consciousness, and the First-Person Stance Hardback
by Jonardon (University of Sussex) Ganeri
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What is it to occupy a first-person stance? Is the first-personal idea one has of oneself in conflict with the idea of oneself as a physical being?
How, if there is a conflict, is it to be resolved? The Self recommends a new way to approach those questions, finding inspiration in theories about consciousness and mind in first millennial India.
These philosophers do not regard the first-person stance as in conflict with the natural--their idea of nature is not that of scientific naturalism, but rather a liberal naturalism non-exclusive of the normative. Jonardon Ganeri explores a wide range of ideas about the self: reflexive self-representation, mental files, and quasi-subject analyses of subjective consciousness; the theory of emergence as transformation; embodiment and the idea of a bodily self; the centrality of the emotions to the unity of self.
Buddhism's claim that there is no self too readily assumes an account of what a self must be.
Ganeri argues instead that the self is a negotiation between self-presentation and normative avowal, a transaction grounded in unconscious mind.
Immersion, participation, and coordination are jointly constitutive of self, the first-person stance at once lived, engaged, and underwritten. And all is in harmony with the idea of the natural.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:386 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:26/04/2012
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- ISBN:9780199652365
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:386 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:26/04/2012
- Category:
- ISBN:9780199652365
