The First-Person Perspective and Other Essays

ISBN-13: 9780521568715 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 300 str.

Sydney Shoemaker; Ernest Sosa; Jonathan Dancy

Opis

The essays in this collection deal with the way in which we know our own minds. Professor Shoemaker opposes the "inner sense" conception of introspective self-knowledge. He defends the view that perceptual and sensory states have nonrepresentational features--"qualia"--that determine what it is like to have them. Among the other topics covered are the unity of consciousness, and the idea that the "first-person perspective" gives a privileged route to philosophical understanding of the nature of mind.

Recenzje

"This collection seems to me the plum among the many impressive recent philosophical treatments of consciousness and self-knowledge, and the most useful as a starting point for further work. Every turn is made brilliantly and plainly, with lucid, compelling argumentation...." Mark Crimmins, Dialogue

Spis treści

Part I. Self-Knowledge: 1. Introspection and the self; 2. On knowing one's own mind; 3. First-person access; 4. Moore's paradox and self-knowledge; Part II. Qualia: 5. Qualities and qualia: what's in the mind?; 6. Qualia and consciousness; 7. Intrasubjective/intersubjective; Part III. Mental Unity and the Nature Of The Mind: 8. The first-person perspective; 9. Unity of consciousness and consciousness of unity; Part IV. The Royce Lectures: Self-Knowledge and 'Inner Sense': 10. Lecture 1: the object perception model; 11. Lecture 2: the broad perceptual model; 12. Lecture 3: the phenomenal character of experience.