The Mirror of the World: Subjects, Consciousness, and Self-Consciousness

Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press (2014)
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Christopher Peacocke presents a new theory of subjects of consciousness, together with a theory of the nature of first person representation. He identifies three sorts of self-consciousness--perspectival, reflective, and interpersonal--and argues that they are key to explaining features of our knowledge, social relations, and emotional lives

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Introduction

The aim of the book is to present an integrated account of subjects of consciousness and the first person way of thinking about a subject of consciousness, and to apply the integrated account to some classical issues in the epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of mind that concern sub... see more

Open Conclusion: The Place of Metaphysics

The book contains many examples of points at which we need to appeal to the metaphysics of a subject matter to explain adequately epistemic, conceptual, and mental phenomena. The metaphysics has a philosophical explanatory priority over the conceptual and the representational. This contrad... see more

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