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PART 3 PHENOMENOLOGY AND METAPHYSICS: SELF-EXPERlENCE AND SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS PART 4. THE EXPERlENCE OF TlME PART 6 METAPHYSICS: PRELlMINARIES PART 7 METAPHYSICS: THE QUESTION OF FACT, I PART 8 METAPHYSICS: THE QUESTlON OF FACT, 2 References Index xv xxi 19 98 161 217 265 323 361 426 439. Title: Selves: an essay in revisionary metaphysics.

Selves An Essay in Revisionary Metaphysics Galen Strawson. A fascinating and provocative new account of the self; Calls into question our everyday understanding of our own identity; Will interest all philosophers working on personal identity, self-knowledge, consciousness, phenomenology; Lucidly and compellingly written.

Review of Galen Strawson, Selves: An Essay in Revisionary Metaphysics. (REVIEW) Sydney Shoemaker - 2009 - Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2009 (11). Descriptive and Revisionary Metaphysics. Susan Haack - 1979 - Philosophical Studies 35 (4):361 - 371. The Epistemological Challenge of Revisionary Metaphysics.

Galen John Strawson (born 1952) is a British analytic philosopher and literary critic who works primarily on philosophy of mind, metaphysics (including free will, panpsychism, the mind-body problem, and the self), John Locke, David Hume, Immanuel Kant and Friedrich Nietzsche. He has been a consultant editor at The Times Literary Supplement for many years, and a regular book reviewer for The.

Selves book. Read 2 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. What is the self? Does it exist? If it does exist, what is it like? It's not.

The contrast between descriptive and revisionary metaphysics, although briefly presented by Strawson, entered into the folk taxonomy of philosophy. As well as occasioning disagreement, Strawson’s book stimulated, over time, a series of books all of which could be described as essays in descriptive metaphysics with a similar focus to, though not with identical conclusions to, Individuals.

It approaches the metaphysics or ontology of the self, which addresses the questions just raised, through the phenomenology of the self. Metaphysics (or ontology) is the general study of how things are or can be or must be. It's a matter for scientists and mathematicians as well as philosophers, and includes physics as an evolving part.

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Selves: An Essay in Revisionary Metaphysics (English Edition). He argues that we should consider the phenomenology (experience) of the self before we attempt its metaphysics (its existence and nature). And when we have considered what it's like for human beings (assuming we can generalize about ourselves), we need to consider what it might.

Strawson, G. (2009) Selves: an essay in revisionary metaphysics. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp472. ISBN 9780198250067 Full text not archived in this repository. It is advisable to refer to the publisher's version if you intend to cite from this work.

Selves: An Essay in Revisionary Metaphysics Stokes, Patrick 2011, Selves: An Essay in Revisionary Metaphysics, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, vol. 19.