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Cover 1 The Mirror of the World: Subjects, Consciousness, and Self-Consciousness 4 Copyright 5 Preface 6 Contents 8 Acknowledgements and Sources 10 I: Introduction 14 II: Primitive Self-Representation 19 1. The Basic Notion 19 2. Self-Files 27 3. Three Degrees of Self-Representation 43 III: The Metaphysics of Conscious Subjects 53 1. Consciousness and Conscious Subjects: An Interdependence 53 2. A Response to Hume 57 3. The Consequences of Interdependence 70 4. Contemporary Differences: A Historical Affinity 81 IV: The First Person Concept and its Nonconceptual Parent 93 1. Some Background on Concepts 94 2. Explaining Four Phenomena 99 3. Issues of Acquaintance 112 V: Explaining First Person Phenomena 119 1. Explaining Immunity to Error through Misidentification 119 2. Can We Dispense with First Person Notions and Concepts? 126 VI: Descartes Defended 140 1. The Soundness of the Cogito 141 2. What Can the Perspective of Consciousness Supply? 152 3. Entitlement, the Second Cogito, and Anscombe 159 VII: Paralogisms and First Person Illusions 167 1. The Issues 167 2. Some Replies to Kant’s Objections 172 3. Strawson’s Neo-Kantian Conception of Subjects 191 VIII: Perspectival Self-Consc

Author

Christopher Peacocke

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