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Self and World (Paperback, Revised)
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Self and World (Paperback, Revised)
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An exploration of the nature of self-awareness, Quassim Cassam
challenges the widespread and influential view that one cannot be
introspectively aware of oneself as an object in the world. In
opposition to the views of many empiricist and idealist
philosophers, including Hume, Kant, and Wittgenstein, he argues
that the self is not systematically elusive from the perspective of
self-consciousness, and that consciousness of thoughts and
experiences requires a sense of thinking, experiencing selves as
shaped, located, and solid physical objects in a world of such
objects. Awareness of oneself as a physical object involves forms
of bodily self-awareness whose importance has seldom been properly
acknowledged in philosophical accounts of the self and
self-awareness. The conception of self-awareness defended in this
book helps to undermine the idealist thesis that the self does not
belong to the world, and also the claim that the existence of
subjects or persons is only a derivative feature of reality. In the
final part of the book, Cassam argues that the existence of persons
is a substantial fact about the world, and that it is not possible
to give a complete description of reality witho
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