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The mirror of the world : subjects, consciousness, and self-consciousness /

Christopher Peacocke presents a philosophical theory of subjects of consciousness, together with a theory of the nature of first person representation of such a subject of consciousness. He develops a new treatment of subjects, distinct from previous theories, under which subjects were regarded eith...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Peacocke, Christopher
Format: Printed Book
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2014
Edition:First edition.
Series:Context and content
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Primitive self-representation
  • The metaphysics of conscious subjects
  • The first person concept and its nonconceptual parent
  • Explaining first person phenomena
  • Descartes defended
  • Paralogisms and first person illusions
  • Perspectival self-consciousness
  • Reflective self-consciousness
  • Interpersonal self-consciousness
  • Open conclusion : the place of metaphysics.