The Self

Ganeri, Jonardon:
The Self : Naturalism, Consciousness, and the First-person Stance / Jonardon Ganeri. - Oxford : Oxford Univ Press, 2012. - xii, 374 S.
ISBN 978-0-19-965236-5
£ 40,00 / US$ 75,00
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Beschreibung
What is it to occupy a first-person stance? Is the first-personal idea one has of oneself in conflict with the idea of oneself as a physical being? How, if there is a conflict, is it to be resolved? The Self recommends a new way to approach those questions, finding inspiration in theories about consciousness and mind in first millennial India. These philosophers do not regard the first-person stance as in conflict with the natural--their idea of nature is not that of scientific naturalism, but rather a liberal naturalism non-exclusive of the normative.
   Jonardon Ganeri explores a wide range of ideas about the self: reflexive self-representation, mental files, and quasi-subject analyses of subjective consciousness; the theory of emergence as transformation; embodiment and the idea of a bodily self; the centrality of the emotions to the unity of self. Buddhism's claim that there is no self too readily assumes an account of what a self must be. Ganeri argues instead that the self is a negotiation between self-presentation and normative avowal, a transaction grounded in unconscious mind. Immersion, participation, and coordination are jointly constitutive of self, the first-person stance at once lived, engaged, and underwritten. And all is in harmony with the idea of the natural. [Verlagsinformation]

Inhalt
Note on Diacritics and Pronunciation. x
Key Philosophers Discussed. xi
Introduction. 1
PART I. NATURALISM AND THE SELF
   Historical Prelude: Varieties of Naturalism. 19
   1. Conceptions of Self: An Analytical Taxonomy. 35
   2. Experiment, Imagination, and the Self. 50
PART II. MIND AND BODY
   3. Emergence. 69
   4. Transformation. 83
   5. Persistence. 98
   6. The Self as Bodily. 112
PART III. IMMERSION AND SUBJECTIVITY
   7. The Composition of Consciousness. 127
   8. Self-consciousness. 146
   9. Reflexivism. 166
   10. Sentience. 182
   11. Other Minds. 202
PART IV. PARTICIPATION AND THE FIRST-PERSON STANCE
   12. The Mind-Body Problem. 225
   13. Attention, Monitoring, and the Unconscious Mind. 249
   14. The Emotions. 268
   15. Unity. 283
   16. The Distinctness of Selves. 304
Conclusion: A Theory of Self. 318
Bibliography. 333
Index. 365

Autor

JONARDON GANERI's work has focused primarily on a retrieval of the Sanskrit philosophical tradition in relationship to contemporary Anglo-American analytical philosophy, and he has done work in this vein on theories of self, conceptions of rationality, and the philosophy of language. He has also worked extensively on the social and intellectual history of early modern South Asia, on the nature of philosophy as a practice, and on the political idea of identity. He is currently Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sussex and Professor of Philosophy at Monash University. Profile page.

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