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Selves - An Essay in Revisionary Metaphysics (Paperback)
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Selves - An Essay in Revisionary Metaphysics (Paperback)
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What is the self? Does it exist? If it does exist, what is it like?
It's not clear that we even know what we're asking about when we
ask these large, metaphysical questions. The idea of the self comes
very naturally to us, and it seems rather important, but it's also
extremely puzzling. As for the word 'self'--it's been taken in so
many different ways that it seems that you can mean more or less
what you like by it and come up with almost any answer. Galen
Strawson proposes to approach the (seeming) problem of the self by
starting from the thing that makes it seem there is a problem in
the first place: our experience of the self, our experience of
having or being a self, a hidden, inner mental presence or locus of
consciousness. He argues that we should consider the phenomenology
(experience) of the self before we attempt its metaphysics (its
existence and nature). And when we have considered what it's like
for human beings (assuming we can generalize about ourselves), we
need to consider what it might be like for other possible
creatures: what's the very least that might count as experience of
oneself as a self? This, he proposes, will give us a good idea of
what we ought to be looking for when we go on to ask whether there
is such a thing-an idea worth following wherever it leads. It leads
Strawson to conclude that selves, inner subjects of experience, do
indeed exist. But they bear little resemblance to traditional
conceptions of the self.
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