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Zusatztext This brilliant and provocative book is about more than its title suggests... I found this an impressive book. throughout the level of philosophical intelligence is very high, and the discussion is historically and scientifically well-informed, and often insightful and illuminating. The phenomenological observations, for example those in the discussion of the stream of consciousness, are often very acute. The writing is often brilliant... it is a rewarding book to read, even for those, like myself, who are unpersuaded by its central claims. Informationen zum Autor Galen Strawson is Professor of Philosophy at Reading University, UK, and a Regular Visitor at CUNY Graduate Center, New York. Prior to that he was Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at CUNY Graduate Center, New York (2004-07); Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at Jesus College, Oxford (1987-2000). He has also held visiting positions at the Research School of Social Sciences at Australian National University (1993), New York University (1997), and Rutgers University (2000). Strawson received his degrees from the universities of Cambridge and Oxford and studied at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (rue d'Ulm) and the Sorbonne (Paris I, 1977-8). Klappentext 0 Zusammenfassung Is there such a thing as the self? If so, what is it? We all have experience of having or being a self, a hidden inner mental presence. Galen Strawson argues that if we look closely at what experience of a self is like, we may be able to work out what a self must be, if it exists. He concludes that selves do exist, but they are not what we think. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part One: Introduction Part Two: Phenomenology: the local question Part Three: Phenomenology and metaphysics: self-experience and self consciousness Part Four: Phenomenology: the general question Part Five: Phenomenology and metaphysics: time and the experience of time Part Six: Metaphysics: preliminaries Part Seven: Metaphysics: the question of fact 1 Part Eight: Metaphysics: the question of fact 2 ...
