Date of Award
8-12-2016
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Philosophy
First Advisor
Dan Weiskopf
Second Advisor
Eddy Nahmias
Third Advisor
Neil Van Leeuwen
Abstract
Galen Strawson argues that we have a sense of mental selves, which are entities that have mental features but do not have bodily features. In particular, he argues that there is a form of self-consciousness that involves a conception of the mental self. His mental self view is opposed to the embodied self view, the view that the self must be conceived of as an entity that has both mental and bodily features. In this paper, I will argue against Strawson’s mental self view and for the embodied self view. I will draw on P. F. Strawson’s theory of persons and Gareth Evans’ Generality Constraint to argue that Galen Strawson fails to provide a satisfactory account of the mental self that can counter the embodied self view.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57709/8621137
Recommended Citation
Cheng, Chieh-ling, "Self-Consciousness, Self-Ascription, and the Mental Self." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2016.
doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/8621137