Do You Exist?: The Case for a Substantive Self
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Chapters:
00:00:00 - Introduction
00:02:32 - Skepticism About the Self
00:06:46 - Descartes and "Cogito, Ergo Sum"
00:10:58 - The Overreach Objection
00:14:36 - The Cartesian Circle Objection
00:19:55 - The General Circularity Objection
00:27:00 - The Subject of Experience
00:38:06 - The Thinker's Thoughts
00:43:18 - Persistence Through Time
00:53:24 - The Simplicity of the Self
01:00:33 - The Insignificance of Hume's Inability to Find Himself
01:08:53 - Conclusion
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Discourse on Method - René Descartes
Cartesian Truth - Thomas C. Vinci
Surplus: Spinoza, Lacan - A. Kiarina Kordela
Personal Ontology - Andrew Brenner
Squaring the Circle in Descartes' Meditations - Stephen I. Wagner
Transcendent Apriorism - Mark Robert Burgess
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Cogitations - Jerrold J. Katz
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Knowledge, Thought, and the Case for Dualism - Richard Fumerton
Consciousness and the Mind of God - Charles Taliaferro
The Immaterial Self - John Foster
Self-Knowledge - Brie Gertler
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