The paradox of self-consciousness
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書誌事項
The paradox of self-consciousness
（Representation and mind / Hilary Putnam and Ned Block, editors）
MIT Press, 1998
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注記
"A Bradford book."
Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
In this book, Jose Luis Bermudez addresses two fundamental problems in the philosophy and psychology of self-consciousness: (1) Can we provide a noncircular account of fully fledged self-conscious thought and language in terms of more fundamental capacities? (2) Can we explain how fully fledged self-conscious thought and language can arise in the normal course of human development? Bermudez argues that a paradox (the paradox of self-consciousness) arises from the apparent strict interdependence between self-conscious thought and linguistic self-reference. The paradox renders circular all theories that define self-consciousness in terms of linguistic mastery of the first-person pronoun. It seems to follow from the paradox of self-consciousness that no such account or explanation can be given.
Drawing on recent work in empirical psychology and philosophy, the author argues that any explanation of fully fledged self-consciousness that answers these two questions requires attention to primitive forms of self-consciousness that are prelinguistic and preconceptual. Such primitive forms of self-consciousness are to be found in somatic proprioception, the structure of exteroceptive perception, and prelinguistic forms of social interaction. The author uses these primitive forms of self-consciousness to dissolve the paradox of self-consciousness and to show how the two questions can be given an affirmative answer.
目次
- The paradox of self-consciousness
- the form of a solution
- content, concepts, and language
- the theory of nonconceptual content
- the self of ecological optics
- somatic proprioception and the bodily self
- points of view
- navigation and spatial reasoning
- psychological self-awareness - self and others
- solving the paradox of self-consciousness.
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