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Quassim Cassam - Self and World

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Self and World is an exploration of the nature of self-awareness. Cassam rejects the widespread view that the self eludes introspection, and argues that consciousness of our thoughts and experiences involves a sense of our thinking, experiencing selves as shaped, solid, and located physical objects in a world of such objects. This clear, original, and challenging treatment of one of the deepest of intellectual problems will demand the attention of all philosophers and cognitive scientists who are concerned with the self.

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Cassam Quassim Lecturer in Philosophy University of Oxford and Fellow and - photo 1
Cassam, Quassim , Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Oxford, and Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy
Self and World
Publication date 1999 (this edition)
Print ISBN-10: 0-19-823895-9
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-823895-9
doi:10.1093/0198238959.001.0001
Abstract: The thesis of this book is that it is a necessary condition of self-consciousness that one is intuitively aware of oneself, qua subject, as a physical object. Intuitive awareness of oneself as a physical object involves various forms of bodily awareness in which one is presented to oneself, qua subject, as shaped, solid, and located. These forms of bodily self-awareness are required for self-consciousness because they are necessary for consciousness of one's own identity as the subject of different representations, and for consciousness of these representations as representations of an objective world. This account of self-consciousness helps undermine various forms of idealism and reductionism about the self.
Keywords: bodily awareness,intuitive awareness,objective world,representation,reductionism,self,self-consciousness
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Self and world / Quassim Cassam.
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1. Self (Philosophy). 2. Self-consciousness. 3. Self-perception.
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Preface
My deepest intellectual debt is to P. F. Strawson, whose writings have had a profound influence on my thinking about a wide range of philosophical issues. I first became seriously interested in philosophy when I read his book Individuals as an undergraduate, so it is fitting that Strawson's work should figure so prominently in what follows.
In The Bounds of Sense, his brilliant commentary on Kant, Strawson claims that to be self-conscious one must conceive of oneself as a corporeal object among corporeal objects. This claim, together with Strawson's arguments for it, was the focus of the research leading up to this book. Although I have my doubts about these arguments, there is hardly a single page in the present work which has not been shaped by my engagement with them.
My central thesis is that it is not possible to give an adequate account of self-consciousness without acknowledging the importance of certain forms of bodily self-awareness which have received surprisingly little attention in the analytical tradition. My interest in the topic of bodily self-awareness was first stimulated by my colleague Michael Ayers, from whom I have learned a great deal over the years. His influence on this book, both through his writings and through his comments on an earlier draft, has been very considerable.
I have profited from many vigorous discussions with John Campbell, whose scepticism about my approach to self-consciousness has helped me to sharpen up my arguments. I am also grateful to an anonymous reader for Oxford University Press, and to Naomi Eilan, whose incisive comments on earlier drafts of the first four chapters were enormously helpful. Bill Brewer's comments on an earlier version of the discussion of immunity to error through misidentification in Chapter led to a significant change in the argument of this chapter. My response to Reductionism about persons in the final chapter owes much to discussions with Derek Parfit.
This book first began to take shape in 1993 in a class given at the University of California, Berkeley, and in subsequent classes in Oxford. I am grateful to the audiences on these occasions for some extremely stimulating responses, and to audiences in Birmingham, Cambridge,
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London, Oxford, Reading, Sheffield, and Stirling for many other helpful comments.
I would also like to thank the following:
The editor and publishers of the Review of Metaphysics for permission to use material from my paper 'Kant and Reductionism', Review of Metaphysics, vol. 43 (1989): 72-106, in Chapter .
MIT Press for permission to use material from my paper 'Introspection and Bodily Self-Ascription', in J. Bermdez, A. Marcel, and N. Eilan (eds.), The Body and the Self (Cambridge, Mass., 1995), pp. 311-36, in Chapter .
The Indian Council of Philosophical Research for permission to use material from my paper 'Transcendental Self-Consciousness', in P. K. Sen and R. R. Verma (eds.), The Philosophy of P. F. Strawson (New Delhi, 1995), pp. 161-78, in Chapter .
Blackwell Publishers Ltd. for permission to use material from my paper 'Self-Reference, Self-Knowledge, and the Problem of Misconception', European Journal of Philosophy (December 1996), in Chapter .
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Contents
Self and World
Introduction
The Exclusion Thesis
The Self-Consciousness Argument
The Objectivity Argument
Introduction
The Concept Version of the Objectivity Argument
Quasi-Memory
Geometrical Self-Location
The Intuition Version of the Objectivity Argument
Awareness of the Self 'Qua Subject'
Immunity to Error Through Misidentification
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