Consciousness and Subjectivity

by Sofia Miguens (Editor), Gerhard Preyer (Editor)

Issues of subjectivity and consciousness are dealt with in very different ways in the analytic tradition and in the idealistic phenomenological tradition central to continental philosophy. This book brings together analytically inspired philosophers working on the continent with English-speaking philosophers to address specific issues regarding subjectivity and consciousness. The issues range from acquaintance and immediacy in perception and apperception, to the role of agency in bodily mine-ness, to self-determination (Selbstbestimmung) through (free) action. Thus involving philosophers of different traditions should yield a deeper vision of consciousness and subjectivity; one relating the mind not only to nature, or to first-person authority in linguistic creatures questions which, in the analytic tradition, are sometimes treated as exhausting the topic but also to many other aspects of mind s understanding of itself in ways which disrupt classic inner/outer boundaries."

363 pages, ebook

First published January 1, 2012

About the author

Sofia Miguens é professora catedrática do Departamento de Filosofia da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, onde ensina, sobretudo, epistemologia, filosofia da mente, filosofia da linguagem e filosofia contemporânea. Foi Visiting Scholar na Universidade de Nova Iorque, no Institut Jean Nicod, na Universidade de Sydney e Professora Visitante na Universidade de Amiens. Foi Presidente da Sociedade Portuguesa de Filosofia.