Self: What am I?

ISBN-13: 9781846146206 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 240 str.

Barry Dainton

Opis

When you think 'What am I?', what's eactually doing the thinking? Is it soul, or are 'you' just a collection of nerve-endings and narratives? Here, Barry Dainton takes us through the nature of 'Self' and its relation to the rest of reality.

Recenzje

Clever... fun to follow, thanks to [Dainton's] relaxed and humorous prose. In a brief volume he ranges over a vast conceptual territory, lucidly presenting current views of how consciousness fits into the physical world, and speculating with brio on the fate of the self in a future age of brain-augmentation and virtual reality Prospect

O autorze

Barry Dainton is professor of Philosophy at the University of Liverpool. He works in metaphysics and the philosophy of mind, and is influenced by current and predicted developments in science and technology. He is the author of three books: The Phenomenal Self, Stream of Consciousness, and Time and Space.