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The Self in Question
Memory, The Body and Self-Consciousness
ISBN/EAN: 9781137290403
Umbreit-Nr.: 2011875
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: xii, 249 S.
Format in cm:
Einband:
gebundenes Buch
Erschienen am 27.09.2013
Auflage: 1/2013
- Zusatztext
- A humanistic account of self-consciousness and personal identity, and offering a structural parallel between the epistemology of memory and bodily awareness. It provides a much-needed rapprochement between Analytic and Phenomenological approaches, developing Wittgenstein's insights into "I"-as-subject and self-identification.
- Kurztext
- Forges radical new connection between self-consciousness and personal identity, with original interpretation of the memory criterion for personal identity Far-reaching synthesis of Analytic and Phenomenological approaches, including critique of the almost universal assumption of materialism about the body, and an original approach to the use of scientific psychological theory in Philosophy Unique holistic treatment of concepts (conceptual holism) with original results concerning personal and bodily identity which undermines traditional debates Offers a distinctive and innovative critique of q-memory arising from the concept of information Unusual analysis of structural parallel between epistemology of memory and bodily awareness Groundbreaking humanistic as opposed to naturalistic approach
- Autorenportrait
- Andy Hamilton teaches philosophy at Durham University, UK. His publications include Aesthetics and Music (2007), Lee Konitz: Conversations on the Improviser's Art (2007), Scruton's Aesthetics (2012, co-edited with Nick Zangwill), The Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Wittgenstein and On Certainty (forthcoming) and many articles in aesthetics and philosophy of mind.