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The self in question :

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1137290404

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9781137290403

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The self in question :

General Material Designation

[Book]

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memory, the body and self-consciousness /

First Statement of Responsibility

Andy Hamilton, University of Durham, UK

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xii, 249 pages ;

Dimensions

23 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Text of Note

The Self in Question offers a humanistic account of self-consciousness and personal identity, providing a much-needed rapprochement between Analytic and Phenomenological approaches to self-consciousness. In Analytic philosophy, a resurgence of interest in the topic of self-consciousness has been inspired by the work of Gareth Evans. Both Evans and his successors make the plausible assumption that self-consciousness is a capacity manifested in the use of "I", or through behaviour which must be described in terms of "I". The Self in Question develops this assumption through an analysis of Wittgenstein's insights into 'I'-as-subject and self-identification, relating them - as their author did not - to the epistemology of memory and bodily awareness. As a result, it is able to discern the truth in the apparently discredited memory criterion of personal identity. It also draws on Husserl's and Merleau-Ponty's understanding of the body's significance for self-consciousness, to offer a critique of materialism about the body. Book jacket

Identity (Philosophical concept)

Identity (Psychology)

Memory

Proprioception

Self (Philosophy)

Self-consciousness (Awareness)

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Hamilton, Andy,1957-

Date of Transaction

20140205113556.0

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[Book]

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