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020			_a9781681372204
050	0	0	_aPS3560.U522 _bV36 2012
082	1		_a192 STR _2
100	1		_aStrawson, Galen
245	1	4	_aThings that bother me : _bdeath, freedom, the self, etc. _c/ Galen Strawson
260			_aNew York _b: New York Review Books _c, 2018
300			_a236 p. _c; 22 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
505	0	0	_aThe sense of the self -- A fallacy of our age -- I have no future -- Luck swallows everything -- You cannot make yourself the way you are -- The silliest claim -- Real naturalism -- The unstoried life -- Two years' time.
520			_aOf the essays collected here, "A Fallacy of our Age" (an inspiration for Vendela Vida's novel Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name ) takes issue with the commencement address cliche that life is a story. Strawson questions whether it is desirable or even meaningful to think about life that way. "The Sense of Self" offers an alternative account, in part personal, of how a distinct sense of self is not at all incompatible with a sense of the self as discontinuous, leading Strawson to a position that he sees as in some ways Buddhist. "Real Naturalism" argues that a fully naturalist account of consciousness supports a belief in the immanence of consciousness in nature as whole (also known as pan-psychism), while in the final essay Strawson offers a vivid account of coming of age in the 1960s. Drawing on literature and life as much philosophy, this is a book that prompts both argument and wonder.
546			_aEnglish.
650		4	_aPhilosophy, British _y-20th century
650		4	_aPhilosophy, British _y-21th century
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