<p>‘This wide-ranging collection of essays by philosophers of mind across the Continent and the Anglophone world is inspired by Sartre’s difficult but fecund doctrine of the pre-reflective cogito. Thanks to this book, the study of human consciousness may just return to where it belongs - fundamental ontology.’<br /><i>Joseph K. Schear, University of Oxford, UK</i></p><p>‘This excellent volume marks the long-overdue recognition of the originality and subtlety of Sartre’s contributions to the philosophy of consciousness. The essays are of high quality and the collection as a whole should be of great interest to anyone working on the phenomenology and ontology of consciousness.’<br /><i>Peter Poellner, University of Warwick, UK</i></p>
Pre-reflective Consciousness: Sartre and Contemporary Philosophy of Mind delves into the relationship between the current analytical debates on consciousness and the debates that took place within continental philosophy in the twentieth century and in particular around the time of Sartre and within his seminal works.
Examining the return of the problem of subjectivity in philosophy of mind and the idea that phenomenal consciousness could not be reduced to functional or cognitive properties, this volume includes twenty-two unique contributions from leading scholars in the field. Asking questions such as:
- Why we should think that self-consciousness is non-reflective?
- Is subjectivity first-personal?
- Does consciousness necessitate self-awareness?
- Do we need pre-reflective self-consciousness?
- Are ego-disorders in psychosis a dysfunction of pre-reflective self-awareness?
- How does the Cartesian duality between body and mind fit into Sartre’s conceptions of consciousness?
Pre-reflective Consciousness: Early Sartre in the Context of Contemporary Philosophy of Mind delves into the relations between the current debates on consciousness within analytical philosophy and the debates taking place in continental philosophy in the twentieth century and in particular within the work of Sartre.
Introduction: Back to Pre-reflectivity Sofia Miguens, Gerhard Preyer and Clara Morando Bravo Part 1: Foundation of the Mental 1. Why we should think that Self-Consciousness is non-reflective? Manfred Frank 2. Is Subjectivity First-Personal? Tomis Kapitan 3. Degrees of Self-Presence: Rehabilitating Sartre’s Accounts of Pre-Reflective Self-Consciousness and Reflection Kenneth Williford 4. Sartre on Pre-Reflective Consciousness: The Adverbial Interpretation Mark Rowlands 5. Pre-reflective and Reflective Time-Consciousness: The Shortcomings of Sartre and Husserl and a possible Way out Gerhard Seel Part 2: I-Knowledge, Perception and Introspection 6. The Zero Point and I Terry Horgan and Shaun Nichols 7. A Sketch of Sartre’s Error Theory of "Introspection" Matthew C. Eshleman 8. A Pebble at the Bottom of the Water: Sartre and Cavell on the Opacity of Self-knowledge Pierre-Jean Renaudie 9. Does Consciousness Necessitate Self-Awareness?: Consciousness and Self-Awareness in Sartre’s The Transcendence of the Ego Daniel R. Rodríguez Navas 10. Perception and Imagination A Sartrean Account Uriah Kriegel Part 3: Pre-reflectivity disputed 11. Do we need Pre-reflective Self-consciousness? About Sartre and Brentano Eric Tremault 12. Sartre’s Non-Egological Theory of Consciousness Joshua Tepley 13. The 'of' of Intentionality and the 'of' of Acquaintance Rocco J. Gennaro 14. A "Quasi-Sartrean" Theory of Subjective Awareness Joseph Levine Part 4: Body as a Whole, the Other, and Disorder of the Mental 15. Pain: Sartre and Anglo-American Philosophy of Mind Katherine J. Morris 16. Sartre, Enactivism, and the Bodily Nature of Pre-reflective Consciousness Kathleen Wider 17. The Body is structured like a Language. Reading Sartre’s Being and Nothingness Dorothée Legrand 18. Basic Forms of Pre-Reflective Self-Consciousness: a Developmental Perspective Anna Ciaunica 19. Ego-disorders in Psychosis - Dysfunction of Pre-reflective Self-awareness? Andreas Heinz Part 5: Historical Philosophical Background 20. Radical Epokhè: On Sartre’s concept of "pure reflection" Raoul Moati 21. Sartre and Kierkegaard on Consciousness and Subjectivity Iker Garcia 22. Invisible Ghosts: Les Jeux Sont Fait and Disembodied Consciousness Jeremy Ekberg. Index