On Myself, and Other, Less Important Subjects (eBook)

Caspar Hare (Autor)

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2009
136 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-3090-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Caspar Hare makes an original and compelling case for "e;egocentric presentism,"e; 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 "e;all and only the things of which I am aware are present to me."e; Hare, however, goes one step further and claims, counterintuitively, that the thought should instead be that "e;all and only the things of which I am aware are present."e; 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.

Autor

Caspar John Hare is associate professor of philosophy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.7.2009
• Einführung: Mark Johnston
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
• Schlagworte: abductive reasoning • adolescence • Ambiguity • Analogy • Axiology • C. D. Broad • Concept • Consciousness • Consequentialism • Consideration • Contradiction • counterexample • Criticism • Derek Parfit • de se • Determination • Egocentric presentism • Egocentrism • epistemic possibility • Epistemology • Eternalism (philosophy of time) • Ethical Egoism • ethicist • Existence • Existentialism • Explanation • Falsity • Feeling • Four-dimensionalism • G. E. Moore • Generosity • hatred • Hedonism • humility • hypothesis • Illustration • Imagination • indigestion • inference • Intelligibility (philosophy) • introspection • judgement • Lexical item • Ludwig Wittgenstein • Matter of fact • Mental event • Mental exercise • Metaphor • Modal operator • modal realism • Monograph • Morality • moral nihilism • Multitude • nostril • obstacle • Ontology • Pain and pleasure • Perdurantism • Personal Identity • Philosopher • Philosophy • Philosophy of Language • Physicalism • possible world • Precedent • Presentism (literary and historical analysis) • prima facie • Principia Ethica • Principle • Problem of other minds • Psychology • Qualia • Ralph Nader • raw material • reason • reductionism • Reincarnation • result • Saul Kripke • scientific theory • self-concept • self-consciousness • Self-Interest • Semantics • Shorthand • Simultaneity • skepticism • Solipsism • stuttering • temporal parts • theory • Thomas Nagel • Thought • Thought experiment • Truth condition • Understanding • Value (ethics) • wishful thinking • Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-3090-7 / 1400830907
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-3090-9 / 9781400830909