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dc.contributor.authorRupert, Robert D.
dc.date.accessioned2021-09-07T19:31:45Z
dc.date.available2021-09-07T19:31:45Z
dc.date.issued2018-01-01
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/3290
dc.description.abstractPhilosophers of mind commonly draw a distinction between the personal level – the distinctive realm of conscious experience and reasoned deliberation – and the subpersonal level, the domain of mindless mechanism and brute cause and effect. Moreover, they tend to view cognitive science through the lens of this distinction. Facts about the personal level are given a priori, by introspection, or by common sense; the job of cognitive science is merely to investigate the mechanistic basis of these facts. I argue that this view misrepresents the structure of cognitive-scientific enquiry. Taken at face value, cognitive science makes no commitment to the existence of a distinctive level at which persons or selves appear. Thus, in the age of cognitive science, we should not expect to find the self in an ontologically distinct realm. Instead, we should expect to locate it in cognitive-scientific models themselves. In closing, I indicate likely results of this approach.
dc.subjectSelf
dc.subjectMind
dc.subjectCognitive Science
dc.titleThe Self in the Age of Cognitive Science: Decoupling the Self from the Personal Level
dc.typearticle
refterms.dateFOA2021-09-07T19:31:45Z
dc.description.institutionSUNY Brockport
dc.source.peerreviewedTRUE
dc.source.statuspublished
dc.description.publicationtitlePhilosophic Exchange
dc.contributor.organizationUniversity of Colorado, Boulder
dc.languate.isoen_US


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    Philosophic Exchange is published by the Center for Philosophic Exchange, at the College at Brockport. The Center for Philosophic Exchange was founded by SUNY Chancellor Samuel Gould in 1969 to conduct a continuing program of philosophical inquiry, relating to both academic and public issues. Each year the Center hosts four speakers, and each speaker gives a public lecture that is intended for a general audience. These lectures are then published in this journal.

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