Being No One: The Self-Model Theory of Subjectivity

by Thomas Metzinger

Book Overview

According to Thomas Metzinger, no such things as selves exist in the world: nobody ever had or was a self. All that exists are phenomenal selves, as they appear in conscious experience. The phenomenal self, however, is not a thing but an ongoing process; it is the content of a "transparent self-model." In Being No One, Metzinger, a German philosopher, draws strongly on neuroscientific research to present a representationalist and functional...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262633086
• ISBN13: 9780262633086
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 699 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher