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The Self in Question : Memory, the Body, and Self-consciousness by Andy Hamilton (auth.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Self in Question : Memory, the Body, and Self-consciousness about?
__The Self in Question__ offers a humanistic account of self-consciousness and personal identity, providing a much-needed rapprochement between Analytic and Phenomenological approaches to self-consciousness. In Analytic philosophy, a resurgence of interest in the topic of self-consciousness has been inspired by the work of Gareth Evans. Both Evans and his successors make the plausible assumption that self-consciousness is a capacity manifested in the use of "I", or through behaviour which must be described in terms of "I". __The Self in Question__ develops this assumption through an analysis of Wittgenstein's insights into "I"-as-subject and self-identification, relating them – as their author did not – to the epistemology of memory and bodily awareness. As a result, it is able to discern the truth in the apparently discredited memory criterion of personal identity. It also draws on Husserl's and Merleau-Ponty's understanding of the body's significance for self-consciousness, to offer a critique of materialism about the body.
Who reads The Self in Question : Memory, the Body, and Self-consciousness?
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Andy Hamilton (auth.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781137290403
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Philosophy, Anthropology, Humanities