The First-Person Perspective and Other Essays

Author/Contributor(s):	Shoemaker, Sydney
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Date:	09/13/1996
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

The essays in this collection deal with the way in which we know our own minds. Professor Shoemaker opposes the "inner sense" conception of introspective self-knowledge. He defends the view that perceptual and sensory states have nonrepresentational features--"qualia"--that determine what it is like to have them. Among the other topics covered are the unity of consciousness, and the idea that the "first-person perspective" gives a privileged route to philosophical understanding of the nature of mind.