The First-Person Point of View |
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| Author:
| Carl, Wolfgang |
| ISBN: | 978-3-11-036286-2 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2014 |
| Publisher: | De Gruyter, Inc.
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| Book Format: | Mixed media product |
| List Price: | USD $168.00 |
Book Description:
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Self-reference and self-knowledge are constitutive for being a person and presuppose the use of the first-person pronoun. The book gives an extensive account of the various uses of this word and argues for a new theory of the first-person point of view, applied to the fields of self-knowledge and the concern for one's own future - a theory more adequate than the views about the self currently discussed in biology and neuroscience.
Self-reference and self-knowledge are constitutive for being a person and presuppose the use of the first-person pronoun. The book gives an extensive account of the various uses of this word and argues for a new theory of the first-person point of view, applied to the fields of self-knowledge and the concern for one's own future - a theory more adequate than the views about the self currently discussed in biology and neuroscience.