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Peter Strawson is related to self-consciousness because he defines the concept of a person as a necessary condition for self-consciousness [1] and explores the requirement of self-consciousness for the unity of experience [2], while also distinguishing his account of persons from the notion of self-consciousness [3].
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Self-Consciousness - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu 3 facts
claimP.F. Strawson offers an account of persons that distances the notion from self-consciousness by defining a person as an entity to which both predicates ascribing states of consciousness and predicates ascribing corporeal characteristics are equally applicable.
claimP.F. Strawson argues that the primitiveness of the concept of a person is a necessary condition for the possibility of self-consciousness.
claimP.F. Strawson, in his discussion of Immanuel Kant's transcendental deduction, articulates the claim that if different experiences are to belong to a single consciousness, the subject of those experiences must have the possibility of self-consciousness.