Manuel García-Carpintero, "Self-Experience: Essays on Inner Awareness"
English | ISBN: 019880539X | 2023 | 384 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1128 KB + 3 MB

Recent debates on phenomenal consciousness have shown renewed interest for the idea that experience generally includes an experience of the self–a self-experience–whatever else it may present the self with. When a subject has an ordinary experience (as of a bouncing red ball, for example), the thought goes, she is not just phenomenally aware of the world as being presented in a certain way (a bouncy, reddish, roundish way in this case); she is also phenomenally aware of the fact that it is presented to her. This supposed phenomenal dimension has been variously called mineness, for-me-ness, pre-reflective self-awareness and subjective character, among others.This view, associated with historical figures such as William James, Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, and Sartre, is attracting a new surge of attention at the crossroads of phenomenology, analytic philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of cognitive science, but also intense controversy.This book explores some of the questions running through the ongoing debate on the putative subjective dimension of experience: