The First Person in Cognition and Morality

ISBN-13: 9780198845829 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 112 str.

Beatrice Longuenesse

Opis

Beatrice Longuenesse explores the two aspects of our conception of ourselves when we use the pronoun 'I': how the possibility of first-person thought is internally related to objective, shareable judgments, and how the tacit egoism of the first person is internally related to the impersonal or universal standpoint of morality.

Recenzje

...we have a formidable response to Lichtenberg's oft-quoted claim that we should say "it thinks" or "there is thinking going on" rather than "I think," as well as a response to Nietzsche's notorious notion that thoughts come about when they will and not when "I" will them.

O autorze

Béatrice Longuenesse is Julius Silver Professor of Philosophy at New York University. Her current interests include history of philosophy, contemporary philosophy of language and mind, and philosophical issues related to Freudian psychanalysis. She has written numerous books, including Kant on the Human Standpoint (Cambridge 2005), Hegel's Critique of Metaphysics (Cambridge 2007), and I, Me, Mine: Back to Kant, and Back Again (Oxford 2017). She also co-edited Kant and the Early Moderns (Cambridge, 2008) with Daniel Garber.