The Self
Naturalism, Consciousness, and the First-Person Stance
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 26 April 2012
- ISBN 9780199652365
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages386 pages
- Size 240x163x28 mm
- Weight 762 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Jonardon Ganeri presents a ground-breaking study of selfhood, drawing on Indian theories of consciousness and mind. He explores the notion of embodiment and the centrality of the emotions to the self, and shows how to harmonize the idea of the first-person perspective with a naturalist worldview which encompasses the normative.
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What is it to occupy a first-person stance? Is the first-personal idea one has of oneself in conflict with the idea of oneself as a physical being? How, if there is a conflict, is it to be resolved? The Self recommends a new way to approach those questions, finding inspiration in theories about consciousness and mind in first millennial India. These philosophers do not regard the first-person stance as in conflict with the natural--their idea of nature is not that of scientific naturalism, but rather a liberal naturalism non-exclusive of the normative.
Jonardon Ganeri explores a wide range of ideas about the self: reflexive self-representation, mental files, and quasi-subject analyses of subjective consciousness; the theory of emergence as transformation; embodiment and the idea of a bodily self; the centrality of the emotions to the unity of self. Buddhism's claim that there is no self too readily assumes an account of what a self must be. Ganeri argues instead that the self is a negotiation between self-presentation and normative avowal, a transaction grounded in unconscious mind. Immersion, participation, and coordination are jointly constitutive of self, the first-person stance at once lived, engaged, and underwritten. And all is in harmony with the idea of the natural.
Ganeri covers a lot of groundâthe author has clearly succeeded in seamlessly moving back and forth across different schools and traditions of philosophy ... The organization of the book is in such a way that it touches all most all the major problems which are discussed in the philosophy of mind.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Part I. Naturalism & the Self
Historical Prelude: Varieties of Naturalism
Conceptions of Self: An Analytical Taxonomy
Experiment, Imagination & the Self
Part II. Mind & Body
Emergence
Transformation
Persistence
The Self as Bodily
Part III. Immersion & Subjectivity
The Composition of Consciousness
Self-consciousness
Reflexivism
Sentience
Other Minds
Part IV. Participation & the First-Person Stance
The Mind-Body Problem
Attention, Monitoring & the Unconscious Mind
The Emotions
Unity
The Distinctness of Selves
Conclusion: A Theory of Self
Bibliography
Index
