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No Self to be Found
James Giles
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Description for No Self to be Found
Paperback. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: JMS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 222.
This book is a exploration of the notion of personal identity. Here it is shown how the various attempts to give an account of personal identity are all based on false assumptions and so inevitably run aground. One of the first Western thinkers to realize this was David Hume, the 18th century empiricist philosopher who argued that self was a fiction. A new interpretation of Hume's no-self theory is put forward by arguing for an eliminative rather than a reductive point of view of personal identity, and by approaching the problem in terms of phenomenology, Buddhist critiques of the notion ... Read more
This book is a exploration of the notion of personal identity. Here it is shown how the various attempts to give an account of personal identity are all based on false assumptions and so inevitably run aground. One of the first Western thinkers to realize this was David Hume, the 18th century empiricist philosopher who argued that self was a fiction. A new interpretation of Hume's no-self theory is put forward by arguing for an eliminative rather than a reductive point of view of personal identity, and by approaching the problem in terms of phenomenology, Buddhist critiques of the notion ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780761806684
SKU
V9780761806684
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About James Giles
James Giles is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Guam and author of The Nature of Sexual Desire.
Reviews for No Self to be Found
James Giles' work is a clear, well-informed investigation of the psychological subject in the analytic style. It aims to correct some misleading assumptions that have distorted discussion of personal identity by philosophers and psychologists for centuries.
John Pickering, Warwick University
Self and Identity
Giles has a gift of being able to express in an accessible manner very ... Read more
John Pickering, Warwick University
Self and Identity
Giles has a gift of being able to express in an accessible manner very ... Read more