Expressive Self - by Ángel García Rodríguez (Hardcover)

About the Book

The Expressive Self argues the nature of the self lies in the fact that only in one's own case are acts of expression actual episodes of one's self-consciousness. The author provides novel accounts of Moore's paradox, self-deception, and McKinsey's paradox and addresses challe...

Book Synopsis

The Expressive Self argues the nature of the self lies in the fact that only in one's own case are acts of expression actual episodes of one's self-consciousness. The author provides novel accounts of Moore's paradox, self-deception, and McKinsey's paradox and addresses challenges from self-reference and first-person authority.

Review Quotes

"The Expressive Self offers an ingenious defense of the view that what makes the first-person perspective important is not an epistemic but a practical capacity, the capacity to express how things are with oneself. Utilizing an insightful distinction between descriptive and expressive claims about oneself, García Rodríguez is able to provide ground-breaking solutions to Moore's paradox, McKinsey's paradox, and the puzzle of self-deception. Comprehensive and coherent, this marvelous book--rich with insight--will be immensely valuable to researchers on self-consciousness, and will surely be regarded as a must-read contribution to the philosophy of mind in years to come."

"In this exciting new book, Ángel García Rodríguez argues that there is something irreducibly first-personal about what it is to be oneself, something which no third-person account can provide. Rodríguez demonstrates with impressive prowess that the key to this uniqueness of the first-person perspective resides in the notion of expression. Offering novel approaches to both Moore's paradox and McKinsey's paradox along the way, The Expressive Self work is essential reading for anybody interested in the nature of the self."

About the Author

Ángel García Rodríguez is a philosophy lecturer at the University of Murcia.