Being No One: The Self-Model Theory of Subjectivity

by Thomas Metzinger

Book Overview

According to Thomas Metzinger, no such things as selves exist in the world: nobody ever had or was a self. All that exists are phenomenal selves, as they appear in conscious experience. The phenomenal self, however, is not a thing but an ongoing process; it is the content of a "transparent self-model." In Being No One, Metzinger, a German philosopher, draws strongly on neuroscientific research to present a representationalist and functional analysis...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262134179
• ISBN13: 9780262134170
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Bradford Book
• Length: 720 Pages
• Weight: 3.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 7.3" x 9.3"