1st Edition

The Second Person Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives

Edited By Naomi Eilan Copyright 2016
138 Pages
by Routledge

138 Pages
by Routledge

136 Pages
by Routledge

The past few years have witnessed an exponentially growing body of work conducted under the ‘second person’ heading. This idea has been explored in various areas of philosophy (philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, ethics, epistemology), in developmental psychology, in psychiatry, and even in neuroscience. We may call this interest in the second person the ‘You Turn’. To put it at its most... Read more

1. The You Turn Naomi Eilan

2. Other wills: the second-person in ethics Douglas Lavin

3. You and me Guy Longworth

4. Intentional transaction Sebastian Rödl

5. Second person thought Jane Heal

6. The moral obligations of trust Paul Faulkner

7. Reason explanation and the second-person perspective Johannes Roessler

8. Am I You? Matthias Haase

9. Teaching and telling Will Small

Biography

Naomi Eilan is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Consciousness and Self Consciousness Research Centre at the University of Warwick, UK. She has a longstanding interest in issues that lie at the intersection of philosophy of mind, metaphysics and psychology. Her most recent book, edited with Johannes Roessler and Hemdat Lerman, is Perception, Causation, and Objectivity (2011).