The phenomenal self / Barry Dainton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dainton, Barry, 1958- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Self (Philosophy).

Phenomenalism.

Phenomenology.

Self.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxv, 434 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Barry Dainton presents a fascinating new account of the self, the key to which is experiential or phenomenal continuity. Provided our mental life continues we can easily imagine ourselves surviving the most dramatic physical alterations, or even moving from one body to another. It was this fact that led John Locke to conclude that a credible account of our persistence conditions - an account which reflects how we actually conceive of ourselves - should be framed in terms of mental rather than material continuity. But mental continuity comes in different forms. Most of Locke's contemporary foll

Contents:

Mind and self

Phenomenal unity

Phenomenal continuity

Powers and subjects

Alternatives

Minds and mental integration

Embodiment

Simple selves

Holism

Modes of incapacitation

Objections and replics

The topology of the self

Appendix : reductionism .

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [418]-426) and index.

Description based on print version record.

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ISBN:

0-19-969224-6

1-281-85300-3

9786611853006

0-19-153720-9

OCLC:

227006382