I, Me, Mine: Back to Kant, and Back Again

by Béatrice Longuenesse

Book Overview

B?atrice Longuenesse presents an original exploration of our understanding of ourselves and the way we talk about ourselves. In the first part of the book she discusses contemporary analyses of our use of 'I' in language and thought, and compares them to Kant's account of self-consciousness, especially the type of self-consciousness expressed in the proposition 'I think.' According to many contemporary philosophers, necessarily, any instance of our...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198822723
• ISBN13: 9780198822721
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"