Self and World (Paperback, Revised)

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

General

Imprint:	Clarendon Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	June 1999
First published:	June 1999
Authors:	Quassim Cassam
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	216
Edition:	Revised
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-823895-9
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Metaphysics & ontology Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Philosophy of mind Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > Phenomenology & Existentialism Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Metaphysics & ontology Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Philosophy of mind Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > Phenomenology & Existentialism
LSN:	0-19-823895-9
Barcode:	9780198238959

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