The Self in Question: Memory, The Body and Self-Consciousness

by Andy Hamilton

Overview

A humanistic account of self-consciousness and personal identity, and offering a structural parallel between the epistemology of memory and bodily awareness. It provides a much-needed rapprochement between Analytic and Phenomenological approaches, developing Wittgenstein's insights into "I"-as-subject and self-identification.  

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137290410
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date:	09/27/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	249
File size:	425 KB

About the Author

Andy Hamilton teaches philosophy at Durham University, UK. His publications include Aesthetics and Music (2007), Lee Konitz: Conversations on the Improviser's Art (2007), Scruton's Aesthetics (2012, co-edited with Nick Zangwill), The Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Wittgenstein and On Certainty (forthcoming) and many articles in aesthetics and philosophy of mind.
 

Table of Contents

Preface Introduction 1. Self-Consciousness and Its Linguistic Expression 2. Memory and Self-Consciousness (1): Immunity to Error Through Misidentification and the Critique of Quasi-Memory 3. Memory and Self-Consciousness (2): The Conceptual Holism of Memory and Personal Identity, and the Unity of Consciousness 4. Proprioception and Self-Consciousness (1): Proprioception as Direct, Immediate Knowledge of the Body 5. Proprioception and Self-Consciousness (2): Self-Conscious Knowledge and the Rejection of Self-Presentation 6. Self-Identification and Self-Reference 7. Humanism and Animal Self-Consciousness Bibliography Index

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"Andy Hamilton's The Self in Question is a penetrating and refreshingly original work on the related topics of self-consciousness, memory, self-reference, and personal identity. It locates previously unrecognised connections between these topics, and its discussion of conceptual holisms is particularly important. Hamilton carves out a distinctive and plausible position covering a wide range of key topics in epistemology, metaphysics, and the philosophy of language, and he does so in a way that will be useful to readers both inside and outside the Analytic tradition." Stephen Braude, University of Maryland, USA

Editorial Reviews

The book examines the relation between self-consciousness and: memory, personal identity, proprioception, the body and linguistic mastery of the first-person. … The book has a usefully detailed table of contents and clear introductory chapter. The different parts of the book seem relatively independent … . Students of self-consciousness and related topics will find it a stimulating read overall as well a useful resource to consult at the more local level.” (Daniel Morgan, Analysis, Vol. 76 (3), July, 2016)

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