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Recent debates on phenomenal consciousness have shown renewed interest for the idea that experience generally includes an experience of the self--a self-experience--whatever else it may present the self with. When a subject has an ordinary experience (as of a bouncing red ball, for example), the thought goes, she is not just phenomenally aware of the world as being presented in a certain way (a bouncy, reddish, roundish way in this case); she is also phenomenally aware of the fact that it is presented to her. This supposed phenomenal dimension has been variously called mineness, for-me-ness, pre-reflective self-awareness and subjective character, among others.
This view, associated with historical figures such as William James, Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, and Sartre, is attracting a new surge of attention at the crossroads of phenomenology, analytic philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of cognitive science, but also intense controversy.
This book explores some of the questions running through the ongoing debate on the putative subjective dimension of experience: Does it exist?, the existence question; What is it?, the essence question; What is it for?, the function question; and What else does it explain?, the explanation question.
The volume also surveys various domains of human experience, both normal and pathological, where a 'sense of self' might be at play, including agency, bodily awareness, introspection, memory, emotions, and values, and offers insights into the possible relations between the notions of subjective awareness involved.
The first part of the book is devoted to more sceptical or deflationary views about self-experience, and the second, to more robust ones.
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Self-Experience explores some of the questions running through the ongoing debate on the putative subjective dimension of experience, surveys various domains of human experience where a 'sense of self' might be at play, and offers insights into the possible relations between the notions of subjective awareness involved.
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1: Manuel García-Carpintero and Marie Guillot: Introduction: Views about Self-Experience
Part I: Doubts and Questions About Self-Experience
2: Léa Salje and Alexander Geddes: Conscious Experience: What's In It For Me?
3: Tom McClelland: Four Impediments to the Case for Mineness
4: Robert Howell: Transparency and Subjective Character
5: Gianfranco Soldati: Mineness, Deflation, and Transparency
6: Wayne Wu: Mineness and Introspective Data
7: Krisztina Orbán and Hong Yu Wong: The Sense of Body Ownership: What Are We Studying?
Part II: Putting Self-Experience to Work
8: Uriah Kriegel: The Three Circles of Consciousness
9: Martine Nida-Rümelin: Experiencing Subjects and So-called Mine-ness
10: Marie Guillot: The Phenomenal Concept of Self and First-Person Epistemology
11: Carlota Serrahima: The Bounded Body: On the Sense of Bodily Ownership and the Experience of Space
12: Frédérique de Vignemont: The Phenomenology of Bodily Ownership
13: Richard Dub: Emotions of Mineness
14: Alexandre Billon: What Is It Like to Lack Mineness? Depersonalization as a Probe for the Scope, Nature and Role of Mineness
15: Jordi Fernández: The Ownership of Memories
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Manuel García-Carpintero is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Barcelona, Spain. He has been a fellow at the Center for the Advanced Studies in the Humanities (Edinburgh, 2001), and he has been appointed Visiting Professor at the University of Lisbon (2013-onwards). His main interests are in philosophical logic, the philosophy of language, the philosophy of mind, and related epistemological and metaphysical issues. Marie
Guillot is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Essex. Her research focuses on issues in the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of language, especially subjectivity, self-consciousness, phenomenal consciousness, indexicality, and
the ethics and politics of speech acts.
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Fills a gap in the literature as the first comprehensive collection of essays on this topic in book form
Collects new papers by world-leading philosophers working on the topic of the sense of self or subjectivity in conscious experience, advancing the debate among specialists
Covers a broad array of issues within the topic, covering sceptical and non-sceptical perspectives, as well as a range of areas of conscious experience (including introspection, embodiment, agency, memory, and emotion)
Defends controversial views and develops and defends novel accounts, generating new avenues for discussion
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ISBN
9780198805397
Publisert
2023
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Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
698 gr
Høyde
240 mm
Bredde
161 mm
Dybde
24 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
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Product language
Engelsk
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Antall sider
378