In this highly original book, Markus Gabriel offers an account of
the human self that overcomes the deadlocks inherent in the
standard positions of contemporary philosophy of mind. His view,
Neo-Existentialism, is thoroughly anti-naturalist in that it
repudiates any theory according to which the ensemble of our best
natural-scientific knowledge is able to account fully for human
mindedness. Instead, he shows that human mindedness consists in an
open-ended proliferation of mentalistic vocabularies. Their role in
the human life form consists in making sense of the fact that the
human being does not merely blend in with inanimate nature and the
rest of the animal kingdom. Humans rely on a self-portrait that
locates them in the broadest conceivable context of the universe.
What distinguishes this self-portrait from our knowledge of natural
reality is that we change in light of our true and false beliefs
about the human being. Gabriel's argument is challenged in this
volume by Charles Taylor, Andrea Kern and Jocelyn Benoist. In
defending his argument against these and other objections and in
spelling out his theory of self-constitution, Gabriel refutes
naturalism's metaphysical claim to epistemic exclusiveness and
opens up new paths for future self-knowledge beyond the
contemporary ideology of the scientific worldview.
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