1st Edition

Pre-reflective Consciousness Sartre and Contemporary Philosophy of Mind

Edited By Sofia Miguens, Gerhard Preyer, Clara Morando Copyright 2016
    532 Pages
    by Routledge

    532 Pages
    by Routledge

    Pre-reflective Consciousness: Sartre and Contemporary Philosophy of Mind delves into the relationship between the current analytical debates on consciousness and the debates that took place within continental philosophy in the twentieth century and in particular around the time of Sartre and within his seminal works.





    Examining the return of the problem of subjectivity in philosophy of mind and the idea that phenomenal consciousness could not be reduced to functional or cognitive properties, this volume includes twenty-two unique contributions from leading scholars in the field. Asking questions such as:









    • Why we should think that self-consciousness is non-reflective?


    • Is subjectivity first-personal?


    • Does consciousness necessitate self-awareness?


    • Do we need pre-reflective self-consciousness?


    • Are ego-disorders in psychosis a dysfunction of pre-reflective self-awareness?


    • How does the Cartesian duality between body and mind fit into Sartre’s conceptions of consciousness?


    Introduction: Back to Pre-reflectivity Sofia Miguens, Gerhard Preyer and Clara Morando Bravo Part 1: Foundation of the Mental  1. Why we should think that Self-Consciousness is non-reflective? Manfred Frank  2. Is Subjectivity First-Personal? Tomis Kapitan  3. Degrees of Self-Presence: Rehabilitating Sartre’s Accounts of Pre-Reflective Self-Consciousness and Reflection Kenneth Williford  4. Sartre on Pre-Reflective Consciousness: The Adverbial Interpretation Mark Rowlands  5. Pre-reflective and Reflective Time-Consciousness: The Shortcomings of Sartre and Husserl and a possible Way out Gerhard Seel  Part 2: I-Knowledge, Perception and Introspection  6. The Zero Point and I Terry Horgan and Shaun Nichols  7. A Sketch of Sartre’s Error Theory of "Introspection" Matthew C. Eshleman  8. A Pebble at the Bottom of the Water: Sartre and Cavell on the Opacity of Self-knowledge Pierre-Jean Renaudie  9. Does Consciousness Necessitate Self-Awareness?: Consciousness and Self-Awareness in Sartre’s The Transcendence of the Ego Daniel R. Rodríguez Navas  10. Perception and Imagination A Sartrean Account Uriah Kriegel  Part 3: Pre-reflectivity disputed  11. Do we need Pre-reflective Self-consciousness? About Sartre and Brentano Eric Tremault  12. Sartre’s Non-Egological Theory of Consciousness Joshua Tepley  13. The 'of' of Intentionality and the 'of' of Acquaintance Rocco J. Gennaro  14. A "Quasi-Sartrean" Theory of Subjective Awareness Joseph Levine  Part 4: Body as a Whole, the Other, and Disorder of the Mental  15. Pain: Sartre and Anglo-American Philosophy of Mind Katherine J. Morris  16. Sartre, Enactivism, and the Bodily Nature of Pre-reflective Consciousness Kathleen Wider  17. The Body is structured

    Biography

    Sofia Miguens is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy of the University of Porto, Portugal. She is the Founder and Principal Investigator of MLAG (Mind, Language and Action Group), and the author of six books.





    Gerhard Preyer is Professor of Sociology at Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Among his publications are Intention and Practical Thought and Interpretation, Language and the Social Philosophical Articles, Donald Davidson’s Philosophy: From Radical Interpretation to Radical Contextualism. He is editor of ProtoSociology. An International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research www.protosociology.de





    Clara Bravo Morando is a graduate student (PhD, Philosophy) at the University of Porto, Portugal.

    ‘This wide-ranging collection of essays by philosophers of mind across the Continent and the Anglophone world is inspired by Sartre’s difficult but fecund doctrine of the pre-reflective cogito. Thanks to this book, the study of human consciousness may just return to where it belongs - fundamental ontology.’
    Joseph K. Schear, University of Oxford, UK

    ‘This excellent volume marks the long-overdue recognition of the originality and subtlety of Sartre’s contributions to the philosophy of consciousness. The essays are of high quality and the collection as a whole should be of great interest to anyone working on the phenomenology and ontology of consciousness.’
    Peter Poellner, University of Warwick, UK