E-Book, Englisch, 136 Seiten
Hare On Myself, and Other, Less Important Subjects
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ISBN: 978-1-4008-3090-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, 136 Seiten
ISBN: 978-1-4008-3090-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
Caspar Hare makes an original and compelling case for "egocentric presentism," a view about the nature of first-person experience, about what happens when we see things from our own particular point of view. A natural thought about our first-person experience is that "all and only the things of which I am aware are present to me." Hare, however, goes one step further and claims, counterintuitively, that the thought should instead be that "all and only the things of which I am aware are present." There is, in other words, something unique about me and the things of which I am aware.
On Myself and Other, Less Important Subjects represents a new take on an old view, known as solipsism, which maintains that people's experiences give them grounds for believing that they have a special, distinguished place in the world--for example, believing that only they exist or that other people do not have conscious minds like their own. Few contemporary thinkers have taken solipsism seriously. But Hare maintains that the version of solipsism he argues for is in indeed defensible, and that it is uniquely capable of resolving some seemingly intractable philosophical problems--both in metaphysics and ethics--concerning personal identity over time, as well as the tension between self-interest and the greater good.
This formidable and tightly argued defense of a seemingly absurd view is certain to provoke debate.
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Weitere Infos & Material
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction xi
Chapter 1: Self-Interest and Self-Importance 1
1.1 Confl icting Considerations 2
1.2 The Way Forward 8
Chapter 2: Time- Bias and the Metaphysics of Time 9
2.1 The Peacemaker's Response 14
Chapter 3: Egocentrism and Egocentric Metaphysics 19
3.1 Egocentric Presentism--an Introduction 21
3.2 Semantics for a Logic of Points of View 23
3.3 Egocentric Presentism and Points of View 27
3.4 Egocentric Presentism and Egocentric Considerations 30
3.5 Can We Resolve All Confl icts This Way? 37
Chapter 4: Clarifi cations 41
4.1 Ontological Commitments 41
4.2 Presence and Consciousness 42
4.3 Presence and Time 46
4.4 The Intelligibility of the Notion of Monadic Presence 50
4.5 Making Sense of What Other People Believe and Say 52
Chapter 5: A Problem about Personal Identity over Time 57
5.1 Judgments from the Outside and Inside 57
5.2 Making Sense of Our Judgments from the Outside and Inside 62
5.3 Error Theories 70
Chapter 6: The Solution 73
6.1 Judgments from the Inside Do Not Concern Personal Identity over Time 73
6.2 De Se Ignorance 76
6.3 The Solution 81
6.4 Dread, Existential and Anticipatory 86
Chapter 7: Skepticism and Humility 91
7.1 Skepticism 91
7.2 Humility 96
7.3 Wrapping Up 98
Notes 99
References 107
Index 111
