Includes bibliographical references (p. [426]-438) and index.
Contents:
Pt. 1. Introduction -- pt. 2. Phenomenology: the local question -- pt. 3. Phenomenology and metaphysics: self-experience and self consciousness -- pt. 4. Phenomenology: the general question -- pt. 5. Phenomenology and metaphysics: time and the experience of time -- pt. 6. Metaphysics: preliminaries -- pt. 7. Metaphysics: the question of fact, 1 -- pt. 8. Metaphysics: the question of fact, 2.
Summary:
Is there such a thing as the self? If so, what is it? Galen Strawson argues that if we look closely at what experience of a self is like, we may be able to work out what a self must be, if it exists. He concludes that selves do exist, but they are not what we think.
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