Abstract

Serious treatments of the topic of self-consciousness often begin, as does Christopher Peacocke’s, with expressions of some humility relative to others’ efforts in this area, and the sheer difficulty of the topic (something similar is doubly due, and hereby expressed, when embarking on a brief discussion of such treatments). One of the many virtues of Peacocke’s tour de force of a book is that he shows just how difficult (in his words ‘treacherous’) the terrain is, not least because of the multitude of fundamental issues, in numerous branches of philosophy, and some in psychology, that one needs to negotiate when tackling it. A great number of these are woven together by Peacocke in new ways in the service of the substantive theses he argues for. Because...

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