The Evident Connexion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Evident Connexion write by Galen Strawson. This book was released on 2011-05-05. The Evident Connexion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Evident Connexion presents a bold new reading of David Hume's famous 'bundle' theory of the self or mind, and his later rejection of it. Galen Strawson illuminates the 'uniting principle' of Hume's philosophy and argues that the bundle theory does not, as widely supposed, claim that there are no subjects of experience.
The Early Modern Subject
The Early Modern Subject - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Early Modern Subject write by Udo Thiel. This book was released on 2011-09-29. The Early Modern Subject available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Udo Thiel presents a critical evaluation of the understanding of self-consciousness and personal identity in early modern philosophy. He explores over a century of European philosophical debate from Descartes to Hume, and argues that our interest in human subjectivity remains strongly influenced by the conceptual framework of early modern thought.
Selves
Selves - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Selves write by Galen Strawson. This book was released on 2009-07-30. Selves available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Is there such a thing as the self? If so, what is it? We all have experience of having or being a self, a hidden inner mental presence. 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.
The Self and Self-Knowledge
The Self and Self-Knowledge - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Self and Self-Knowledge write by Annalisa Coliva. This book was released on 2012-04-19. The Self and Self-Knowledge available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A team of leading experts investigate a range of philosophical issues to do with the self and self-knowledge. Self and Self-Knowledge focuses on two main problems: how to account for I-thoughts and the consequences that doing so would have for our notion of the self; and how to explain subjects' ability to know the kind of psychological states they enjoy, which characteristically issues in psychological self-ascriptions. The first section of the volume consists of essays that, by appealing to different considerations which range from the normative to the phenomenological, offer an assessment of the animalist conception of the self. The second section presents an examination as well as a defence of the new epistemic paradigm, largely associated with recent work by Christopher Peacocke, according to which knowledge of our own mental states and actions should be based on an awareness of them and of our attempts to bring them about. The last section explores a range of different perspectives—from neo-expressivism to constitutivism—in order to assess the view that self-knowledge is more robust than any other form of knowledge. While the contributors differ in their specific philosophical positions, they all share the view that careful philosophical analysis is needed before scientific research can be fruitfully brought to bear on the issues at hand. These thought-provoking essays provide such an analysis and greatly deepen our understanding of these central aspects of our mentality.
Nagarjuna's Madhyamaka
Nagarjuna's Madhyamaka - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nagarjuna's Madhyamaka write by Jan Westerhoff. This book was released on 2009-02-23. Nagarjuna's Madhyamaka available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Indian philosopher Acharya Nagarjuna (c. 150-250 CE) was the founder of the Madhyamaka (Middle Path) school of Mahayana Buddhism and arguably the most influential Buddhist thinker after Buddha himself. Indeed, in the Tibetan and East Asian traditions, Nagarjuna is often referred to as the "second Buddha." His primary contribution to Buddhist thought lies is in the further development of the concept of sunyata or "emptiness." For Nagarjuna, all phenomena are without any svabhaba, literally "own-nature" or "self-nature," and thus without any underlying essence. In this book, Jan Westerhoff offers a systematic account of Nagarjuna's philosophical position. He reads Nagarjuna in his own philosophical context, but he does not hesitate to show that the issues of Indian and Tibetan Buddhist philosophy have at least family resemblances to issues in European philosophy.
