Self and World

ISBN-13: 9780198235408 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 216 str.

Quassim Cassam

Opis

Self and World is an exploration of the nature of self-awareness. Cassam rejects the widespread view that the self eludes introspection, and argues that consciousness of our thoughts and experiences involves a sense of our thinking, experiencing selves as shaped, solid, and located physical objects in a world of such objects. This clear, original, and challenging treatment of one of the deepest of intellectual problems will demand the attention of all philosophers and cognitive scientists who are concerned with the self.

Recenzje

A short summary cannot do justice to the richness and subtlety of Cassam's discussion, or to the clarity, carefulness and fair-mindedness with which he argues his case.

O autorze

Quassim Cassam has been Lecturer in Philosophy at Oxford University, and Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at Wadham College, Oxford, since 1986. In 1993 he was Visiting Associate Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the editor of the volume on Self-Knowledge in the Oxford Readings in Philosophy series (1994).