With contributions from Jorge Luis Borges, Richard Dawkins, John Searle, and Robert Nozick, The Mind's I explores the meaning of self and consciousness through the perspectives of literature, artific
What am I referring to when I say "I"? This little word is so easy to use in daily life, yet it has become the focus of intense theoretical debate. Where does my sense of self come from? Does it arise
Provides a sustained treatment of Paul Ricoeur's decentered formulation of selfhood, from his earliest works to his most recent. Examines the underlying theme of all of Ricoeur's philosophical inquiri
Experiences and feelings are inherently conscious states. There is something it is like to feel pain, to have an itch, to experience bright red. Philosophers call this sort of consciousness "phenomena
Naturalization of the Soul charts the development of the concepts of soul and self in Western thought, from Plato to the present. It fills an important gap in intellectual history by being the first b
"Fingarette's book on the topic is so firmly and deservedly entrenched it is 'essential reading.'"--Roger Squires, Editor, The Philosophical Quarterly"It was Herbert Fingarette, in his book Self-Decep
Taylor (humanities and religion, Williams College, Massachusetts) reconsiders the two philosophers based on the notion that all modern philosophy lies between the poles of their thought. He has added
In the rigorous and highly original Self-Awareness and Alterity, Dan Zahavi provides a sustained argument that phenomenology, especially in its Husserlian version, can contribute something decisive to
Persons and Their Minds compares the conflicting claims of mindism and personism and argues for placing persons at the center of philosophy of mind. Mindism stems from Descartes, takes the spectator s
Discusses the thought of the Japanese Buddhist philosophers Dogen, Hisamatsu, and Nishitani, and develops ideas about the self culminating in the concept of the Formless Self the three articulated. St
The Logic of Human Personality shows how the ancient definition of person remains useful today, and explains how it happened to fall into disuse.The method of using the categories of Aristotle is illu
Personal Identity and Self-Consciousness is about persons and personal identity. What are we? And why does personal identity matter? Brian Garrett, using jargon-free language, addresses questions in t
Charles Siewert presents a distinctive approach to consciousness that emphasizes our first-person knowledge of experience and argues that we should grant consciousness, understood in this way, a centr
Explores, from a cross-cultural viewpoint and in terms of symbolic expression, the self's problematic relationship to language and art and to the culture embedding the language and art.
