Self-Awareness and the Elusive Subject

by Robert J. Howell

Self-Awareness and The Elusive Subject explores the puzzling fact that we are certain of the existence of a subject of experience despite its being objectively and subjectively elusive. It is objectively elusive in that, like phenomenal states, it cannot be found from the third-person perspective. It is subjectively elusive because it also cannot be found in introspection. On the one hand, then, the author agrees with the Buddhists and philosophers...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192849239
• ISBN13: 9780192849236
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.6" x 8.2"