Consciousness and the Self

by Liu, Jeeloo; Perry, John

• ISBN13: 9781107000759
• ISBN10: 1107000750
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-01-31
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

Summary

'I never can catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe any thing but the perception.' These famous words of David Hume, on his inability to perceive the self, set the stage for JeeLoo Liu and John Perry's collection of essays on self-awareness and self-knowledge. This volume connects recent scientific studies on consciousness with the traditional issues about the self explored by Descartes, Locke and Hume. Experts in the field offer contrasting perspectives on matters such as the relation between consciousness and self-awareness, the notion of personhood and the epistemic access to one's own thoughts, desires or attitudes. The volume will be of interest to philosophers, psychologists, neuroscientists, cognitive scientists and others working on the central topics of consciousness and the self.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
List of contributors	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Awareness and identification of self	p. 22
Self-representationalism and the explanatory gap	p. 51
Thinking about the self	p. 76
Ordinary self-consciousness	p. 101
Waiting for the self	p. 123
I think I think, therefore I am - I think: skeptical doubts about self-knowledge	p. 150
Knowing what I want	p. 165
Self-ignorance	p. 184
Personhood and consciousness	p. 198
My non-narrative, non-forensic Dasein: the first and second self	p. 214
References	p. 241
Index	p. 255
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