First-Person Perspective and Other Essays

Zusammenfassung Sydney Shoemaker is one of the most influential philosophers currently writing on philosophy of mind and metaphysics. The essays in this collection deal with the way in which we know our own minds! and with the nature of those mental states of which we have our most direct conscious awareness. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Self-Knowledge: 1. Introspection and the self; 2. On knowing one's own mind; 3. First-person access; 4. Moore's paradox and self-knowledge; Part II. Qualia: 5. Qualities and qualia: what's in the mind?; 6. Qualia and consciousness; 7. Intrasubjective/intersubjective; Part III. Mental Unity and the Nature Of The Mind: 8. The first-person perspective; 9. Unity of consciousness and consciousness of unity; Part IV. The Royce Lectures: Self-Knowledge and 'Inner Sense': 10. Lecture 1: the object perception model; 11. Lecture 2: the broad perceptual model; 12. Lecture 3: the phenomenal character of experience.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Sydney Shoemaker, Sydney (Cornell University Shoemaker, Shoemaker Sydney
• Mitarbeit: Jonathan Dancy (Herausgeber), Ernest Sosa (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 13.09.1996
• EAN: 9780521568715
• ISBN: 978-0-521-56871-5
• Seiten: 300
• Serien: Cambridge Studies in Philosophy; Cambridge Studies in Philosoph; Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Philosophie > Allgemeines, Lexika; Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Philosophie: Allgemeines, Nachschlagewerke; PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology