What We Are Reading Today: ‘On Myself, and Other, Less Important Subjects’

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Updated 03 March 2024
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘On Myself, and Other, Less Important Subjects’

Author: CASPAR HARE

Caspar Hare makes an original and compelling case for “egocentric presentism,” a view about the nature of first-person experience, about what happens when we see things from our own particular point of view.

A natural thought about our first-person experience is that “all and only the things of which I am aware are present to me.” Hare, however, goes one step further and claims, counterintuitively, that the thought should instead be that “all and only the things of which I am aware are present.”