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Abstract
This is the unaltered manuscript of the Phd thesis as submitted at Heidelberg University.
This dissertation aims to clarify the role of self-experience for the notion of selfhood. To this aim, it examines the epistemology, metaphysics, and phenomenology of self-experience, notably, in its most basic forms. Against three forms of skepticism about self-experience widespread in the history of philosophy, it argues that self-experience is informative with regard to the being of selfhood and that self-experience is best understood as the very way of being of selfhood. On this view, self-experience, in its most basic form, constitutes what is essential about selfhood. Moreover, it is suggested that self-experience, even in its most basic form, involves a sense of existence which is best described as a feeling of being oneself.
Document type: | Dissertation |
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Supervisor: | Fuchs, Prof. Dr. Dr. Thomas |
Place of Publication: | Heidelberg |
Date of thesis defense: | 3 May 2021 |
Date Deposited: | 11 Jan 2022 12:46 |
Date: | 2021 |
Faculties / Institutes: | Philosophische Fakultät > Philosophisches Seminar |
DDC-classification: | 100 Philosophy |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | selfhood, self-experience, skepticism, metaphysics, phenomenology, self-consciousness, self-feeling, existential feeling |