The Phenomenology of Self-Awareness and the Nature of Conscious Subjects [Hardcover]

Introduction: Self-Experience and the Metaphysics of Conscious Subjects??Part 1: Self-Awareness and Conscious Experience??1. Experience, Reflection, and Pre-Reflection? 2. How to Attend to Yourself as a Subject? 3. Hiding in Plain Sight? On the Elusiveness of the Self??Part 2: The Metaphysical Nature of Conscious Subjects??4. The Illusion of the Enduring Self? 5. Agentive Self-Awareness and the Nature of the Conscious Self? 6. The Hard Problem of the Self: A Case for Substance Dualism?? 7. In Defence of Phenomenal Sharing??Part 3: What Self-Awareness Reveals About the Nature of Conscious Subjects??8. What is it for an Experience to Belong to a Subject? A Phenomenological Argument for the Simple View? 9. What Self-Acquaintance Says About Us? 10. Persistence of Persons: Limits of a First-Personal Criterion

This volume explores the connections between the phenomenology of self-awareness and the metaphysical nature of subjects of experience, bringing together two important research areas in contemporary philosophy of mind into fruitful engagement with one another.

This volume explores the connections between the phenomenology of self-awareness and the metaphysical nature of subjects of experience, bringing together two important research areas in contemporary philosophy of mind into fruitful engagement with one another.

The phenomenology of self-awareness concerns what it is like to be aware of oneself in various conscious experiences such as perceiving, recollecting, experiencing agency, or emotions. The metaphysical nature of subjects of experience raises questions concerning whether subjects are physical or non-physical entities, whether they are substances or bundles of properties, and what it is for subjects to have experiences. The ten original essays in this volume are grouped into thematic sections covering the following topil³Ç