Selves: An Essay in Revisionary Metaphysics 1st Edition by Galen Strawson (PDF)

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What is the self? Does it exist? If it does exist, what is it like? It’s not clear that we even know what we’re asking about when we ask these large, metaphysical questions. The idea of the self comes very naturally to us, and it seems rather important, but it’s also extremely puzzling. As for the word ‘self’–it’s been taken in so many different ways that it seems that you can mean more or less what you like by it and come up with almost any answer. Galen Strawson proposes to approach the (seeming) problem of the self by starting from the thing that makes it seem there is a problem in the first place: our experience of the self, our experience of having or being a self, a hidden, inner mental presence or locus of consciousness. He argues that we should consider the phenomenology (experience) of the self before we attempt its metaphysics (its existence and nature). And when we have considered what it’s like for human beings (assuming we can generalize about ourselves), we need to consider what it might be like for other possible creatures: what’s the very least that might count as experience of oneself as a self? This, he proposes, will give us a good idea of what we ought to be looking for when we go on to ask whether there is such a thing-an idea worth following wherever it leads. It leads Strawson to conclude that selves, inner subjects of experience, do indeed exist. But they bear little resemblance to traditional conceptions of the self.

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⭐A very demandng read. I had to read and reread several pages. Heavy content and reasoning.Challenging but worth it.

⭐Self（自己）は存在するか？に関する複雑で入り組んだ心理学的かつ形而上学的論考。全部理解できたともすべてにすぐさま同意できるとも言えないものの、随所で不思議な気持ちを味わわせくれる論考に出会えます。例えば経験の主体（thin subject）と経験と経験内容はconceptualに異なるだけで、実際には同ものである（！）と言うような一見受け入れがたい主張も、著者の主張を読み進めながらしばらく考えてみるとなんだかその通りかもしれないという気がしてきます。著者はよく仏教の事を口にしますが、それはおいても、なにか神秘的な感じの残る読後感です。それが著者の意に沿うもかどうかは不明ですけど。私には充分に理解できていないだろうという意味を込めて星４つですが読書の（自己）満足度では星５つです。

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