Three grades of self involvement and the deduction of objectivity in The Practical Self.
Does self-consciousness entail objectivity, that the subject of self-consciousness is related to a mind-independent world? Anil Gomes, in his elegant and thought-provoking book, The Practical Self, gives a new and absorbing account - a contemporary "deduction" - of how objectivity follows from self-...
| Publicado en: | Inquiry Vol. 68; no. 7; pp. 2506 - 2529 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Aug2025
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