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Throughout the history of philosophy, the idea of a self as an irreducible part of a human being was often debated and contested. In this volume in the Oxford Philosophical Concepts series, the contributors trace the history of how philosophers have addressed these self-related questions. Philosophers discussed include Plotinus and Augustine, Ibn Sina, Thomas Aquinas, Rene Descartes, John Locke, Leibniz, David Hume, Denis Diderot, Immanuel Kan...

Throughout the history of philosophy, the idea of a self as an irreducible part of a human being was often debated and contested. In this volume in the Oxford Philosophical Concepts series, the contributors trace the history of how philosophers have addressed these self-related questions. Philosophers discussed include Plotinus and Augustine, Ibn Sina, Thomas Aquinas, Rene Descartes, John Locke, Leibniz, David Hume, Denis Diderot, Immanuel Kan...

This book examines the Critique of Pure Reason's account of the relation between cognition and self-consciousness. It shows how the theory that cognizers must understand their mental states as standing in relations of rational connection has implications for theories of the self-ascription of belief, consciousness and knowledge of other subjects.

By examining the rise and fall of psychoanalysis, Freud's Dream providesan extended case study of the appeal and potential dangers of the interdisciplinaryapproach to theory construction now guiding cognitive science, as well as a novelinterpretation of Freud's own program. Kitcher argues that Freud's grand scheme forpsychoanalysis was nothing less than a blueprint for a complete interdisciplinaryscience of mind, that many of its strengths and...

The central project of the Critique of Pure Reason is to answer two sets of questions: What can we know and how can we know it? and What can't we know and why can't we know it? The essays in this collection are intended to help students read the Critique of Pure Reason with a greater understanding of its central themes and arguments, and with some awareness of important lines of criticism of those themes and arguments.

The central project of the Critique of Pure Reason is to answer two sets of questions: what can we know and how can we know it? What can't we know and why can't we know it? The essays in this collection are intended to help students read the Critique of Pure Reason with a greater understanding of its central themes and arguments, and with some awareness of important lines of criticism of those themes and arguments.