Dream, Death, and the Self / / J. J. Valberg.
"Might this be a dream?" In this book, distinguished philosopher J. J. Valberg approaches the familiar question about dream and reality by seeking to identify its subject matter: what is it that would be the dream if "this" were a dream? It turns out to be a subject matter that c...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- INTRODUCTION. Philosophical Discovery and Philosophical Puzzles
- PART ONE: Dream
- THE MEANING OF THE DREAM HYPOTHESIS
- 1. The Dream Hypothesis and the Argument from Internality
- 2. The Dream Hypothesis: Identity and the First Person
- 3. The Confusion of Standpoint
- 4. The Subject Matter of the Dream Hypothesis
- DREAM SKEPTICISM
- 5. The Dream Hypothesis and the Skeptical Challenge
- 6. Responding to Dream Skepticism
- PART TWO: Death
- THE MEANING OF DEATH
- 7. I Will Die
- 8. The Subject Matter and "Mineness" of My Death
- DEATH AND SOLIPSISM
- 9. Solipsism
- 10. Death and the Truth of Solipsism
- 11. The Awfulness and Incomprehensibility of Death
- PART THREE: The Self
- POSSIBILITY AND THE SELF
- 12. Imagination and the Cartesian Self
- 13. Metaphysical Possibility and the Self
- THE POSITIONAL CONCEPTION OF THE SELF
- 14. Preliminary Reflections on the Positional Conception of the Self
- 15. The Phenomenology of the Subject Position
- THE FIRST PERSON
- 16. The Uses of the First Person
- 17. What Makes First-Person Reference First Personal?
- TIME AND THE SELF
- 18. Temporalizing the Self
- 19. The Problem of Personal Identity
- 20. Time and the Horizon
- 21. My Past
- 22. My Future
- 23. My Future: The Puzzle of Division
- 24. Conclusion: The Extraphilosophical Puzzles
- Bibliography
- Index