The self : naturalism, consciousness, and the first-person stance / Jonardon Ganeri.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ganeri, Jonardon, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Self.

Self-knowledge, Theory of.

Philosophy, Indic.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 374 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Naturalism, consciousness, and the first-person stance

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Jonardon Ganeri presents a study of selfhood, drawing on Indian theories of consciousness and mind. He explores the notion of embodiment and the centrality of the emotions to the self, and shows how to harmonize the idea of the first-person perspective with a naturalist worldview which encompasses the normative.

Contents:

Part I. Naturalism & the self. Historical prelude: varieties of naturalism

Conceptions of self: an analytical taxonomy

Experiment, imagination & the self.

Part II. Mind & body. Emergence

Transformation

Persistence

The self as bodily.

Part III. Immersion & subjectivity. The composition of consciousness

Self-consciousness

Reflexivism

Sentience

Other minds.

Part IV. Participation & the first-person stance. The mind-body problem

Attention, monitoring & the unconscious mind

The emotions

Unity

The distinctness of selves.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 15, 2012).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-870939-0

1-280-49838-2

9786613593610

0-19-163128-0

OCLC:

922970799