Self-Awareness and The Elusive Subject explores the puzzling fact
that we are certain of the existence of a subject of experience
despite its being objectively and subjectively elusive. It is
objectively elusive in that, like phenomenal states, it cannot be
found from the third-person perspective. It is subjectively elusive
because it also cannot be found in introspection. On the one hand,
then, the author agrees with the Buddhists and philosophers like
Hume and Sartre that the self cannot be found in experience. He
sides with Descartes', on the other hand, arguing the subject of
experience exists and that we have certainty of the cogito. Along
the way the book considers the claim that phenomenal states have
“subjective character” or “mineness” and argues instead
that they are phenomenally anonymous. Howell concludes with a
deflationary account of pre-reflective self-consciousness and
provides an account of basic self-awareness according to which we
are most fundamentally aware of ourselves indirectly as the subject
of our conscious states.
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