A Map of Selves

Beyond Philosophy of Mind

N.M.L. Nathan

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Routledge
29 January 2024

Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology; Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge; Philosophy of mind

Series: Routledge Studies in Metaphysics

A Map of Selves defines a concept of selfhood, radically different from the Cartesian, neo-Humean, materialist and animalist concepts which now dominate analytical philosophy of mind. A self, as this book defines it, is an enduring substance with a quality which is its constant possession, which it does not share with any other substance, and which is often remembered by it as its own. The author maintains that we are selves as so defined. He criticises the panpsychist theory that material objects are composed of selves analogous to ours, and argues, further, for the existence of at least one transcendent self, whose activity explains both our own existence and the existence of the natural world. He ends by considering whether things would be worse for us if selves as the book defines them did not exist, and we were, as some philosophers suppose we are, just brains, or sequences of mental events, or hylemorphic structures, or subjects which last no longer than the specious present.

Nathan’s carefully argued and original book will be of interest to researchers in metaphysics and philosophical psychology, and to their students.

By: N.M.L. Nathan
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 208g
ISBN: 9781032228518
ISBN 10: 1032228512
Series: Routledge Studies in Metaphysics
Pages: 102
Publication Date: 29 January 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

N.M.L. Nathan is a former Reader in Philosophy and now Hon. Senior Fellow in the University of Liverpool, UK. His books include Evidence and Assurance (1980), Will and World (1992), and The Price of Doubt (Routledge, 2000).

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A Map of Selves

Beyond Philosophy of Mind

N.M.L. Nathan

$83.99

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