The Situated Self

by Jenann Ismael

J. T. Ismael's monograph is an ambitious contribution to metaphysics and the philosophy of language and mind. She tackles a philosophical question whose origin goes back to Descartes: What am I? The self is not a mere thing among things--but if so, what is it, and what is its relationship to the world? Ismael is an original and creative thinker who tries to understand our problematic concepts about the self and how they are related to our use of language...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195174364
• ISBN13: 9780195174366
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.4"