The First-Person Perspective and Other Essays

The First-Person Perspective and Other Essays

by Sydney Shoemaker

278 pages· 1996· ISBN 9780521568715
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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.

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