The Experiential Self: Objections and Clarifications

TY - CHAP

T1 - The Experiential Self

T2 - Objections and Clarifications

AU - Zahavi, Dan

N1 - peer reviewed

PY - 2010/12/1

Y1 - 2010/12/1

N2 - This chapter first outlines a view regarding the relationship between consciousness, selfconsciousness, and a minimal notion of self that is widespread in the phenomenological tradition. It then discusses some of the motivations behind this proposal, and then in the main part of the chapter critically engages with various objections that have recently been raised against this view by Albahari and Dreyfus. Discussing these objections will allow for an important clarification of the view defended here. Also discussed are some of the semantic and metaphysical disagreements that separate defenders and deniers of self, concluding with some reflections regarding the relation between self and diachronic unity.

AB - This chapter first outlines a view regarding the relationship between consciousness, selfconsciousness, and a minimal notion of self that is widespread in the phenomenological tradition. It then discusses some of the motivations behind this proposal, and then in the main part of the chapter critically engages with various objections that have recently been raised against this view by Albahari and Dreyfus. Discussing these objections will allow for an important clarification of the view defended here. Also discussed are some of the semantic and metaphysical disagreements that separate defenders and deniers of self, concluding with some reflections regarding the relation between self and diachronic unity.

U2 - 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199593804.003.0003

DO - 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199593804.003.0003

M3 - Book chapter

SN - 9780199593804

SP - 56

EP - 78

BT - Self, No Self?

A2 - Siderits, Mark

A2 - Thompson, Evan

A2 - Zahavi, Dan

PB - Oxford University Press

ER -