Two Selves
Subtitle: Their Metaphysical Commitments and Functional Independence
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated; Oxford University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780199349968
Subjects: Consciousness; Knowledge, theory of; Metaphysics
Description: Klein takes the position that the self is not a 'thing' easily reduced to an object of scientific analysis. Rather, the self consists of a multiplicity of aspects, some of which have a neuro-cognitive basis (and thus are amenable to scientific inquiry) while other aspects are best construed as first-person subjectivity, lacking material instantiation. As a consequence of their potential immateriality, the subjective aspect of self cannot be taken as an object and therefore is not easily amenable to treatment by current scientific methods.