Being No One: The Self-Model Theory of Subjectivity
Metzinger, Thomas
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From Book House in Dinkytown, IOBA, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Heritage Bookseller
AbeBooks Member Since 1996
About this Item
Copyright 2003 with full number line. Very good+ hardcover with like dust jacket. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square, Grey cloth boards are clean and sharp with just a hint of sunning at head and heel of spine. Titling and title plate on spine are bright and bold. Bright pages, text is very good throughout. Dust jacket is VG+ and arrives wrapped in protective Mylar. Due to the size/weight of this book extra charges may apply for international shipping. Ships same or next business day from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Seller Inventory # 314984
Bibliographic Details
Title: Being No One: The Self-Model Theory of ...
Publisher: Bradford Books
Publication Date: 2003
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good+
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+
Edition: First Edition.
About this title
According to Thomas Metzinger, no such things as selves exist in the world: nobody ever had or was a self. All that exists are phenomenal selves, as they appear in conscious experience. The phenomenal self, however, is not a thing but an ongoing process; it is the content of a "transparent self-model." In Being No One, Metzinger, a German philosopher, draws strongly on neuroscientific research to present a representationalist and functional analysis of what a consciously experienced first-person perspective actually is. Building a bridge between the humanities and the empirical sciences of the mind, he develops new conceptual toolkits and metaphors; uses case studies of unusual states of mind such as agnosia, neglect, blindsight, and hallucinations; and offers new sets of multilevel constraints for the concept of consciousness. Metzinger's central question is: How exactly does strong, consciously experienced subjectivity emerge out of objective events in the natural world? His epistemic goal is to determine whether conscious experience, in particular the experience of being someone that results from the emergence of a phenomenal self, can be analyzed on subpersonal levels of description. He also asks if and how our Cartesian intuitions that subjective experiences as such can never be reductively explained are themselves ultimately rooted in the deeper representational structure of our conscious minds.
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