Thesis
Experience, agency and the self
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Wilfrid Sellars has made familiar a distinction between manifest and scientific images of man-in-the-world. The manifest image is 'a sophistication and refinement of the image in terms of which man first came to be aware of himself as man-in-the-world' ([2], p.18)/ and in its methodology 'limits itself to what correlational techniques can tell us about perceptible and introspectible events' (p.19). The scientific image, on the other hand, 'postulates imperceptible objects and events for t...
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- Publication date:
- 1988
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- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
- Language:
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English
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- Deposit date:
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2014-07-22
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- Copyright holder:
- Gaskin, Richard M.
- Copyright date:
- 1988
- Notes:
- This thesis was digitised thanks to the generosity of Dr Leonard Polonsky
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