Blurred: Selves Made and Selves Making /

Blurred: Selves Made and Selves Making /

The question of the self, of what the self is (or even if there is a self), has been one that has grown alongside humanity - has haunted humanity - throughout our history. Blurred: Selves Made and Selves Making guides the reader down these dark corridors, shining light on the specters of theories pa...

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Main Author: Oberg, Andrew (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden; Boston : Brill | Rodopi, 2021.

Series: Value Inquiry Book Series ; 357.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2020, ISBN: 9789004419094.

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Philosophy.

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Call Number: D16.8

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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1 Background and Literature Review: four Representative Accounts
  • 1.1 A Path Through the Thicket
  • 1.2 Four Accounts of the Self
  • 1.2.1 The Soft Anti-realist Position
  • 1.2.2 The Hard Anti-realist Position
  • 1.2.3 The Soft Realist Position
  • 1.2.4 The Contextualized Soft Realist Position
  • 1.3 Answers? - Guiding Questions
  • 2 Laying the Groundwork: psychological and Embedded Factors, Proposing an Alternate Soft Realist Self Theory
  • 2.1 Situating
  • 2.2 Psychological Issues and the Self
  • 2.2.1 Cognitive Structure
  • 2.2.2 Going Back to Kristjánsson's Sets
  • 2.2.3 Going Back to Hume
  • 2.2.4 Selves, Personal Identity, and Whole Persons
  • 2.2.5 Intuitions and Emotions
  • 2.3 Bodily and Embodied Issues
  • 2.4 A Word on Consciousness and Category Mistakes
  • 2.5 Certain Uncertainty, Randomness, and Limited Choice
  • 2.6 Taking Less (but taking)
  • 3 Phenomenological Approaches to the Self: objections, replies, and 0bjections
  • 3.1 Review and Preview
  • 3.2 A General Objection and Reply
  • 3.3 Phenomenologically based Accounts and Related Issues
  • 3.3.1 Phenomenology 1: strawson's Thin Self/minimal Subject
  • 3.3.2 Phenomenology 2: dainton's Phenomenal Self
  • 3.3.3 Phenomenology 3: going Back to Husserl
  • 3.3.4 Phenomenology 4: heidegger on the Self
  • 3.4 Concluding Introduction
  • 4 Galen Strawson's Panpsychism, Subjecthood, and the Self
  • 4.1 A Starting Point
  • 4.2 Panpsychism and Subjecthood
  • 4.2.1 Strawson's Total Physicalism
  • 4.2.2 Responses to Strawson and Related Panpsychist Concerns
  • 4.3 Seductive, but only a Shimmering
  • 5 Consciousness, Qualia, and the Self
  • 5.1 Modern Neuroscience and the Structure of Consciousness
  • 5.1.1 Consciousness, Intent, Thinking: definitions
  • 5.1.2 The Gap, the Hard Problem, the Neuronal to Experience Straits: navigating
  • 5.1.3 An Aside: always Conscious?
  • 5.2 Qualia and the Self
  • 5.2.1 'What it is Like'
  • 5.2.2 Artificial Intelligence and the Self: the Importance of Qualia
  • 5.2.3 Software, Hardware, and Wondering about the Real
  • 5.3 A Query at Arrival
  • 6 Metaphysics and Time: the Reality of a realist self and its (re-)making
  • 6.1 Metaphysics for a Realist Self
  • 6.2 Time, the Made Self, and the Making Self
  • 6.3 Exhausted Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index.