The mirror of the world : subjects, consciousness, and self-consciousness / Christopher Peacocke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peacocke, Christopher, author.

Series:

Context and content.

Context and content

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Self (Philosophy).

Subject (Philosophy).

Consciousness.

Self-consciousness (Awareness).

Self-knowledge, Theory of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 283 pages) : illustrations.

Other Title:

Subjects, consciousness, and self-consciousness

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Christopher Peacocke presents a new theory of subjects of consciousness, together with a theory of the nature of first person representation. He identifies three sorts of self-consciousness - perspectival, reflective, and interpersonal - and argues that they are key to explaining features of our knowledge, social relations, and emotional lives.

Contents:

Primitive self-representation

The metaphysics of conscious subjects

The first person concept and its nonconceptual parent

Explaining first person phenomena

Descartes defended

Paralogisms and first person illusions

Perspectival self-consciousness

Reflective self-consciousness

Interpersonal self-consciousness

Open conclusion : the place of metaphysics.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on March 14, 2014).

ISBN:

0-19-102268-3