Self-Consciousness - Audio

Professor Christopher Peacocke (UCL and Columbia University) discusses ways in which notions of self-consciousness go beyond the forms of first person representation discussed in the first three lectures in this series. He distinguishes, and characterizes, two varieties of self-consciousness, which he calls perspectival and reflective self-consciousness. He discusses the epistemological and metaphysical significance of these notions, their relations to one another, and their relevance to topics ranging from the characterization of animals’ representations of themselves to the understanding of self-consciousness in both continental and Anglophone philosophers.