The self : a history / edited by Patricia Kitcher.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kitcher, Patricia, editor.

Series:

Oxford philosophical concepts.

Oxford philosophical concepts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Self (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 392 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

Throughout the history of philosophy, the idea of a self as an irreducible part of a human being was often debated and contested. In this volume in the 'Oxford Philosophical Concepts' series, the contributors trace the history of how philosophers have addressed these self-related questions. Philosophers discussed include Plotinus and Augustine, Ibn Sina, Thomas Aquinas, Rene Descartes, John Locke, Leibniz, David Hume, Denis Diderot, Immanuel Kant, and others up through the 20th century.

Contents:

Introduction / Patricia Kitcher

Augustine on Cogitation and Self-Constitution: Drawing from and surpassing the Plotinian stance / Pauliina Remes

The Heritage of Ibn Sina's Concept of the Self / Jari Kaukua

Aquinas and 'I': A Medieval Concept of Self / Therese Scarpelli Cory

Descartes on subjects and selves / Vili Lähteenmäki

Locke on Being Self to my Self / Ruth Boeker

Leibniz on the idea and concept of the self: inner sentiment, self-knowledge, and the awakening of metaphysical ideas / Christian Barth

Reflection: Metacognition and the Self-Concept / Janet Metcalfe

The Idea of Self in Hume's Treatise / Don Garrett

Diderot, the Self, and the Science of Dreaming / Charly Coleman

Reflection: Caravaggio's Self-Regard / Maria Loh

Kant on the Unity of Self-Consciousness and Moral Agency / Patricia Kitcher

Self-Awareness and the 'I' in the Phenomenological Tradition / Sacha Golob

Reflection: "You are an I": Elisabeth Bishop's 'In the Waiting Room' / Gary Ostertag

Self and Self-Representation in the Long Twentieth Century: A Critical Discussion / Christopher Peacocke

Reflection: Spontaneous Neural Activity and the Self: a Neuroscience Perspective / Alison Hanson and Rafael Yuste

Rethinking the Self within an African Philosophical Paradigm / Antjie Krog.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-008729-3

0-19-008728-5

OCLC:

1228910960