The phenomenal self
By: Barry Dainton.
Publisher: Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 434
ISBN-13: 9780199288847
Subjects: Self (Philosophy); Phenomenalism; Phenomenology; Self
Description: Barry Dainton presents an account of the self, grounded in the continuity we find in our streams of consciousness: this is the key to explaining how we can undergo changes but remain the same person.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Mind and self; title: Phenomenal unity; title: Phenomenal continuity; title: Powers and subjects; title: Alternatives; title: Minds and mental integration; title: Embodiment; title: Simple selves; title: Holism; title: Modes of incapacitation; title: Objections and reductions; title: The topology of the self.