Consciousness and Subjectivity

Abstract

Cover "Issues of subjectivity and consciousness are dealt with in very different ways in the analytical 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 adress specific isues 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 involing philosophers of different traditions should yield a deeper visiono f 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 itslef, in ways which disruot classic inner/outer boundaries".