Dear all,
The next meeting of the Serious Metaphysics Group will be held on Wednesday May 7th at 11am-12.30pm in the philosophy faculty board room. Our speaker this week is Ali Boyle who will be giving a talk entitled _Self-awareness and self-representation_ (abstract below). Hope to see you all there! Best wishes, Matthew Simpson Ali Boyle - _Self-awareness and self-representation_ "I consider whether all forms of self-awareness involve self-representation, by examining Peacocke's (2014) distinction between three degrees of self-representation. Peacocke suggests that there could be a conscious creature whose mental states involved no self-representation - a 'degree 0' creature. I question both the plausibility of Peacocke's description of degree 0 creatures, and his claim that such a creature would not be self-aware. I argue that a degree 0 creature would still be self-aware in a very basic sense, simply in virtue of being conscious. I attempt to characterise this basic sense of self-awareness by claiming that the subject figures in the experience not as part of the content, but as part of what I (tentatively) call the 'form' of the experience." -- Matthew Simpson PhD Student in Philosophy University of Cambridge Mail: Robinson College, Cambridge, CB3 9AN
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