The First-Person Perspective and Other Essays

The essays in this collection deal with the way in which we know our own minds. Professor Shoemaker opposes the inner sense conception of introspective self-knowledge. He defends the view that perceptual and sensory states have nonrepresentational features--qualia--that determine what it is like to have them. Among the other topics covered are the unity of consciousness, and the idea that the first-person perspective gives a privileged route to philosophical understanding of the nature of mind.

Author: Sydney Shoemaker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 12/12/1996
Pages: 300
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 8.48h x 5.47w x 0.74d
ISBN: 9780521568715

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