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But what I have been speaking of is an embodied subject that is plain for all to see. chapter 2 The varieties of self and philosophical development of the idea I have said what I mean by ‘Self ’ and why I think there is such a thing. The next task is to see whether ancient philosophers had accounts of self. I think they most certainly did. Again and again, they show the same interest in the individual person, and especially the individual viewed from the first-person point of view as ‘me’. Moreover, like ourselves, they often express these ideas of self just as we do, by the use of pronouns.
J. P. , From Soul to Self, London and New York 1999. 9. Daniel Dennett, ‘Why everyone is a novelist’, Times Literary Supplement, 16 – 22 September 1988, p. 1016, and Consciousness Explained, Boston 1991. 10. , Models of the Self, Thorverton, UK, 1999, 1–24. 11. Derek Parfit, Reasons and Persons, Oxford 1984, revised 1987. 12 what is the self ? I shall not try to answer the objections to selfhood in detail, except those of Parfit in chapters four and fifteen, and I could hardly do them justice in a short space.
27. , The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition, Cambridge Mass. 1999. 28. Daniel J. Povinelli and Timothy J. Eddy, ‘Specificity of gaze-following in young chimpanzees’, British Journal of Developmental Psychology 15, 1997, 213 –22. 26 Part I Existence of Self and philosophical development of the idea the idea of one party’s action getting aligned with the other party’s intention. The alignment and non-alignment of gaze, or intention and action, involves for the infant awareness of its own mental states, but only insofar as they need to be aligned with those of others.