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A Map of Selves: Beyond Philosophy of Mind book cover

1st Edition

A Map of Selves Beyond Philosophy of Mind

By N.M.L. Nathan Copyright 2022
112 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

112 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

112 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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A Map of Selves defines a concept of selfhood, radically different from the Cartesian, neo-Humean, materialist and animalist concepts which now dominate analytical philosophy of mind. A self, as this book defines it, is an enduring substance with a quality which is its constant possession, which it does not share with any other substance, and which is often remembered by it as its own. The... Read more

Introduction

1. Human Selves

1.1 A Remembered Quality

1.2 Introspection?

1.3 Unconsciousness

1.4 Volition

1.5 Disseveralities

1.6 Substances

1.7 Embodied

1.8 Free

1.9 Ulterior?

2. Ulterior Selves?

2.1 Continuity

2.2 Ignorance and Simplicity

2.3 The Confinement of Qualities

3. At Least One Transcendent Self

3.1 Exclusion

3.2 Evidential Sufficient Reason

3.3 An explanatory inference

3.4 The causation of disseveralities

3.5 Essence and Existence

3.6 An argument from causation

3.7 An argument from existence

4. If Selves Did Not Exist

Excursus

A: Primitive Modality

B: Consensual Propositions.

References

Index

Biography

N.M.L. Nathan is a former Reader in Philosophy and now Hon. Senior Fellow in the University of Liverpool, UK. His books include Evidence and Assurance (1980), Will and World (1992), and The Price of Doubt (Routledge, 2000).

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