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This text focuses on the metaphysics and the philosophy of language and mind. It tackles a philosophical question whose origin goes back to Descartes: What am I? The self is not a mere thing among things - but if so, what is it, and what is its relationship to the world?
"Stephen Mulhall presents a series of multiply interrelated essays which together make up an original study of selfhood (subjectivity or personal identity). He explores a variety of articulations (in philosophy, psychoanalysis, and the arts) of the idea that selfhood is best con…
Christopher Peacocke presents a philosophical theory of subjects of consciousness, together with a theory of the nature of first person representation of such a subject of consciousness. He develops a new treatment of subjects, distinct from previous theories, under which subjec…
"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 this book, Anthony Rudd defends a series of closely related claims about the nature of the self. He argues that the self is a being that constitutes or shapes itself, and that it can only do this non-arbitrarily if it is guided by a sense of the good. This ethical or evaluat…
This book explores the intricate relationship between becoming an individual person and knowing oneself as such by studying Kant's distinctive account of psychological personhood. It will be of interest to scholars of the history of philosophy, as well as of philosophy of mind a…
Aṣṭāvakragītā (The song of the self supreme)
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