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What is it to occupy a first-person stance? Is the first-personal idea one has of oneself in conflict with the idea of oneself as a physical being? How, if there is a conflict, is it to be resolved? The Self recommends a new way to approach those questions, finding inspiration in theories about consciousness and mind in first millennial India. These philosophers do not regard the first-person stance as in conflict with the natural-their idea of nature is not that of scientific naturalism, but rather a liberal naturalism non-exclusive of the normative. Jonardon Ganeri explores a wide range of ideas about the self: reflexive self-representation, mental files, and quasi-subject analyses of subjective consciousness; the theory of emergence as transformation; embodiment and the idea of a bodily self; the centrality of the emotions to the unity of self. Buddhism's claim that there is no self too readily assumes an account of what a self must be. Ganeri argues instead that the self is a negotiation between self-presentation and normative avowal, a transaction grounded in unconscious mind. Immersion, participation, and coordination are jointly constitutive of self, the first-person stance at once lived, engaged, and underwritten. And all is in harmony with the idea of the natural.

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• Full title: Self
• Subtitle: Naturalism, Consciousness, and the First-Person Stance
• Author: Jonardon Ganeri
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 386
• EAN: 9780199652365
• ISBN: 0199652368
• ID: 04534348
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Weight: 764 g
• Dimensions: 168 × 241 × 27 mm
• Date of publishing: 19. April 2012

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