The First-Person Perspective and Other Essays (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521568715)

The essays in this collection deal with the way in which we know our own minds. Professor Shoemaker opposes the "inner sense" conception of introspective self-knowledge. He defends the view that perceptual and sensory states have nonrepresentational features--"qualia"--that determine what it is like to have them. Among the other topics covered are the unity of consciousness, and the idea that the "first-person perspective" gives a privileged route to philosophical understanding of the nature of mind.

Author: Sydney Shoemaker
ISBN-10: 0521568714
ISBN-13: 9780521568715
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/13/1996
Pages: 300
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 8.48h x 5.47w x 0.74d