description: 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.
language: English
title: The First-Person Perspective and Other Essays
titlecomplete: The First-Person Perspective and Other Essays (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy)
genres: Philosophy
ratings_count: 4
publisher: Cambridge University Press