On Myself, and Other, Less Important Subjects

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Caspar Hare makes an original and compelling case for "egocentric presentism," a view about the nature of first-person experience, about what happens when we see things from our own particular point of view. A natural thought about our first-person experience is that "all and only the things of which I am aware are present to me." Hare, however, go

Caspar John Hare is associate professor of philosophy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2010 "This short book raises all the big questions that drive much of modern philosophy--metaphysical questions regarding personal identity, solipsism, and self-consciousness; and normative questions concerning what one should value and how one should act. Written clearly, but technically, this often-illustrated volume not only will provoke debates on key issues in contemporary philosophy, but also offers well-defended solutions to those debates."--Choice "[A] short, stylish, and ingenious monograph."--Rory Madden, Mind