The subject of experience

The subject of experience / Galen Strawson.

Does the self exist? If so, what is its nature? How long do selves last? Galen Strawson draws on literature and psychology as well as philosophy to discuss various ways we experience having or being a self. He argues that it is legitimate to say that there is such a thing as the self, distinct from...

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Main Author: Strawson, Galen (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Subjects:
Self (Philosophy)
PHILOSOPHY > Mind & Body.
PSYCHOLOGY > Personality.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; The Subject of Experience; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Preface; Conventions; Acknowledgements; 1: Introduction: `The I, the I;́ 1.1; 1.2; 1.3; 1.4; 1.5; 2: `The Self;́ 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 The Problem of the Self; 2.3 The Local Question: Cognitive Phenomenology; 2.4 Phenomenology and Metaphysics; 2.5 Materialism; 2.6 Singularity; 2.7 Personality; 2.8 The Self in Time: Effects of Character; 2.9 The Self in Time: the `Stream ́of Consciousness; 2.10 The Conditions Question; 2.11 The Factual Question; 2.12 Conclusion; 3: The Self and the Sesmet; 3.1 Introduction.
  • 3.2 The Problem3.3 Phenomenology and Metaphysics; 3.4 Phenomenology: Self-experience; 3.5 Phenomenology: the Local Question; 3.6 Phenomenology: the General Question; 3.7 Phenomenology: Diachronics and Episodics; 3.8 Phenomenology: Me* and Morality; 3.9 Phenomenology: the Experience of the Self as a Thing; 3.10 Phenomenology: Eyes and Is; 3.11 Transition: Phenomenology to Metaphysics; 3.12 Metaphysics: Sesmets; 3.13 Metaphysics: Realistic Materialists and the Physical; 3.14 Metaphysics: Particles, Simples, U-fields; 3.15 Metaphysics: Subjectivism, Objectivism, Universalism.
  • 3.16 Metaphysics: the Nature of Objects3.17 Metaphysics: Object and Process; 3.18 Metaphysics: Object and Property; 3.19 Metaphysics: the Transience View; 3.20 Metaphysics: `I ́and `I;́ 3.21 Conclusion; 4: Against Corporism; 4.1; 4.2; 4.3; 4.4; 4.5; 4.6; 4.7; 4.8; 5: I Have no Future; 5.1; 5.2; 5.3; 5.4; 5.5; 5.6; 5.7; 5.8; 5.9; 5.10; 5.11; 5.12; 5.13; 5.14; 5.15; 6: `We live beyondany tale that we happen to enact;́ 6.1 `Narrativity;́ 6.2 Are We All Narrative?; 6.3 Difference; 6.4 Two More Theses; 6.5 Four Initial Positions; 6.6 Two More Positions; 6.7 Exetasis; 6.8 `Le vrai moí
  • 6.9 Conclusion7: The Unstoried Life; 7.1 Proem; 7.2 `Narrativity;́ 7.3 `Self-authorship;́ 7.4 `Life is not literature;́ 7.5 `La vraie vie;́ 7.6 `A diachronically structured unit;́ 7.7 `My name is Legion;́ 7.8 `What little I remember;́ 7.9 `An ordinary mind;́ 7.10 The True Self?; 8: Self-intimation; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 Real Realism about Experience; 8.3 The Simple View of Experience; 8.4 Awareness of Awareness; 8.5 Epistemology and Ontology; 8.6 Aristotle and Others; 8.7 Variations; 8.8 `Involves;́ 8.9 `Comports;́ 8.10 Reflexivity; 8.11 Flatness; 8.12 Witnesses; 8.13 Pure Awareness?
  • 8.14 The Structure of Consciousness?8.15 Relationality; 8.16 Puzzling; 8.17 Relationality Again; 8.18 Is Self-intimation Perception?; 8.19 Conclusion; 9: Fundamental Singleness: How to Turn the Second Paralogism into a Valid Argument; 9.1 Introduction; 9.2 Experience; 9.3 Materialism (`Um-ism)́; 9.4 Object [1]; 9.5 Subject; 9.6 Object [2]; 9.7 Interim Summary; 9.8 Object [3]; 9.9 Fundamental Singleness; 9.10 Kant on Fundamental Singleness; 9.11 Two Objections; 9.12 Conclusion; 10: Radical Self-awareness; 10.1 Experience; 10.2 The Thin Subject; 10.3 Present-moment Self-awareness.

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