Thinking about oneself : from nonconceptual content to the concept of a self / Kristina Musholt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Musholt, Kristina, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Self (Philosophy).

Self-consciousness (Awareness).

Intersubjectivity.

Physical Description:

xviii, 210 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : MIT Press, [2015]

Contents:

1 Setting the Stage: The Problem of Self-Consciousness 1

1.1 Introduction 1

1.2 The Traditional Subject-Object Model and Its Failure 3

1.3 Prereflective Self-Consciousness 5

1.4 Analyzing the Use of "I" 7

1.5 The Problem of Self-Consciousness Returns 20

2 Nonconceptual Content 25

2.1 Introducing the Notion of Nonconceptual Content 27

2.2 Why Do We Need Nonconceptual Content? 29

2.3 State N on conceptual ism or Content Nonconceptualism? 35

2.4 Nonconceptual Content as a Form of "Knowledge-How" 37

2.5 Conclusion 42

3 Self-Representationalist Accounts of Nonconceptual Self-Consciousness 45

3.1 Self-Representationalist versus Non-Self-Representationalist Accounts 45

3.2 The First Person in Perception 47

3.3 The First Person in Bodily Awareness 51

3.4 Arguments against the Self-Representationalist Approach 55

3.5 Conclusion 75

3.6 Coda: On the Neuroscience of Self-Consciousness 76

4 Toward a Non-Self-Representationalist Account 79

4.1 Selflessness and Immunity to Error through Misidentification 80

4.2 Non-Self-Representationalism and the Sense of "Mineness" 84

4.3 Immunity Reconsidered: Which Kind of Immunity? 86

4.4 Conclusion 94

5 From Implicit Information to Explicit Representation 97

5.1 Implicit versus Explicit Representation 99

5.2 From Implicit Information to Explicit Representation: Representational Redescription 100

5.3 Explicit Representation, Conscious Access, and (Non)Conceptual Content 110

5.4 Summary and Conclusion: Explicit Representation, (Non)Conceptual Content, and Self-Consciousness 113

6 Self and Others, or The Emergence of Self-Consciousness 115

6.1 Historical Prelude 116

6.2 Arguments for the Constitutive Relation between Self-Consciousness and fntersubjectivity 120

6.3 Levels of Self- and Other-Representation 125

6.4 Which Theory of Mind? Toward an Integrative Approach 138

6.5 The Parallelism between Understanding Self and Other in Normal Development and Autism 143

6.6 Summary and Conclusion 146

7 Self-Consciousness in Nonhuman Animals 149

7.1 Mirror Self-Recognition 150

7.2 Mindreading 151

7.3 Metacognition 153

7.4 Conclusion 157

8 Conclusion and Questions for Future Research 159

8.1 Putting the Pieces Together 159

8.2 Open Questions 164.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [183]-203) and index.

ISBN:

9780262029209

0262029200

OCLC:

907132424