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Self-Consciousness, Self-Ascription, and the Mental Self

Cheng, Chieh-ling
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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.

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2016-08-12
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Self-consciousness, Self-ascription, Self and others, Mental self, Embodiment, Generality Constraint
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Cheng, Chieh-ling. "Self-Consciousness, Self-Ascription, and the Mental Self." 2016. Thesis, Georgia State University. https://doi.org/10.57709/8621137
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2016-05-19
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