Blurred: Selves Made and Selves Making
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Contents
Acknowledgements
1 Background and Literature Review: Four Representative Accounts
1.1 A Path through the Thicket
1.2 Four Accounts of the Self
1.3 Answers? - Guiding Questions
2 Laying the Groundwork: Psychological and Embedded Factors, Proposing an Alternate Soft Realist Self Theory
2.1 Situating
2.2 Psychological Issues and the Self
2.3 Bodily and Embodied Issues
2.4 A Word on Consciousness and Category Mistakes
2.5 Certain Uncertainty, Randomness, and Limited Choice
2.6 Taking Less (but Taking)
3 Phenomenological Approaches to the Self: Objections, Replies, and Objections
3.1 Review and Preview
3.2 A General Objection and Reply
3.3 Phenomenologically Based Accounts and Related Issues
3.4 Concluding Introduction
4 Galen Strawson's Panpsychism, Subjecthood, and the Self
4.1 A Starting Point
4.2 Panpsychism and Subjecthood
4.3 Seductive, but Only a Shimmering
5 Consciousness, Qualia, and the Self
5.1 Modern Neuroscience and the Structure of Consciousness
5.2 Qualia and the Self
5.3 A Query at Arrival
6 Metaphysics and Time: The Reality of a Realist Self and Its (Re-)Making
6.1 Metaphysics for a Realist Self
6.2 Time, the Made Self, and the Making Self
6.3 Exhausted Conclusion
Bibliography
Index