On myself, and other, less important subjects [electronic resource] / Caspar John Hare.
2009
BD450 .H287 2009eb
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On myself, and other, less important subjects [electronic resource] / Caspar John Hare.
Author
Hare, Caspar John, 1972-
ISBN
9781400830909 (electronic bk.)
9780691135311
0691135312
9780691135311
0691135312
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Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2009.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xviii, 113 p.) : ill.
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BD450 .H287 2009eb
Summary
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.
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Table of Contents
1. Self-interest and Self-importance
2. Time-bias and the metaphysics of time
3. Egocentrism and the egocentric metaphysics
4. Clarifications
5. Problem about personal identity over time
6. Solution
7. Skepticism and humility.
2. Time-bias and the metaphysics of time
3. Egocentrism and the egocentric metaphysics
4. Clarifications
5. Problem about personal identity over time
6. Solution
7. Skepticism and humility.