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- ISBN 9780190087258
- Weight: 476g
- Dimensions: 140 x 206mm
- Publication Date: 08 Nov 2021
- Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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The Self: A History explores the ways in which the concept of an 'I' or a 'self' has been developed and deployed at different times in the history of Western Philosophy. It also offers a striking contrast case, the 'interconnected' self, who appears in some expressions of African Philosophy.
The I or self seems engulfed in paradoxes. We are selves and we seem to be conscious of ourselves, yet it is very difficult to say what a self is. Although we refer to ourselves, when we try to find or locate ourselves, the I seems elusive. We can find human bodies, but we do not refer to ourselves by referring to our bodies: we do not know that we are raising our hands or thinking hard by looking at our arms or catching a glimpse of our furrowed brows in a mirror. The essays in this volume engage many philosophical resources--metaphysics, epistemology, phenomenology, philosophy of psychology and philosophy of language--to try to shed needed light on these puzzles.
Patricia Kitcher received her BA in Philosophy from Wellesley College and her PhD in Philosophy from Princeton. Before coming to Columbia, she taught at the University of Vermont, the University of Minnesota, and the University of California, San Diego. Her specialties are the philosophy of Kant and the philosophy of psychology.
