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  • Chapter 10 - My non-narrative, non-forensic Dasein

  • Edited by JeeLoo Liu, California State University, Fullerton, John Perry, Stanford University, California
  • Book:
    Consciousness and the Self
    Published online:
    05 December 2011
    Print publication:
    17 November 2011, pp 214-240

  • Summary

    The Experience Principle is warranted on semantic grounds: Most every, but possibly not all, usages of words such as PERSON or SELF assume a first-personal, subjective, experiential component. To get the concept of forensic person out of the schema that mentions only psychological items and connectedness and continuity relations between the items, one needs to be looking for the items and the connection kinds that are suited primarily for our legal and moral practices. One possibility that emerges is that the way we self-express and self-represent in modern social worlds, because it depicts persons in forensic and narrative ways. It also produces the illusion that this is the way most persons always have and always will experience themselves. Thinking carefully about the ways we are all Persons and, more than a few of us also Persons, might make us skeptical that Person is the right analysis of personhood.