Post-Kantian European Philosophy Seminar (Tuesday - Week 6, HT20)
Tuesday 25th February 2020, 17.00
(Ryle Room)
Lilian Alweiss (Trinity College Dublin): Self-Consciousness without an I
The aim of this paper is to discuss whether bodily awareness is rightly seen as a source of self-consciousness in the relevant sense of consciousness of ourselves as subjects of experience and thought. It argues that it is not. While bodily awareness demarcates a notion of consciousness and awareness we have of ourselves it is not the essential one which is required for the subject to attain self-consciousness; i.e. to be aware of itself as a self.
Post-Kantian European Philosophy Seminar Convenors: Joseph Schear, Manuel Dries, and Mark Wrathall
