Selves : an essay in revisionary metaphysics / Galen Strawson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Strawson, Galen, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Self (Philosophy).

Self.

Ontology.

Phenomenology.

Metaphysics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 448 pages)

Other Title:

Essay in revisionary metaphysics

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press Inc., 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Is there such a thing as the self? If so, what is it? Galen Strawson argues that if we look closely at what experience of a self is like, we may be able to work out what a self must be, if it exists. He concludes that selves do exist, but they are not what we think.

Contents:

Part One: Introduction

Part Two: Phenomenology: the local question

Part Three: Phenomenology and metaphysics: self-experience and self consciousness

Part Four: Phenomenology: the general question

Part Five: Phenomenology and metaphysics: time and the experience of time

Part Six: Metaphysics: preliminaries

Part Seven: Metaphysics: the question of fact 1

Part Eight: Metaphysics: the question of fact 2.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-969310-2

0-19-157037-0

1-282-34887-6

9786612348877

OCLC:

922969882