John Foster argues that defining the self through consciousness is an attempt to explain what the immaterial self is 'made of,' which incorrectly assimilates the self toward a physical substance model.

Authors

• Person: Howard Robinson Organization: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  Dualism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Winter 2016 Edition)

Sources

• Dualism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Winter 2016 Edition) plato.stanford.edu Howard Robinson · Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy via serper

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• self concept
• consciousness concept
• John Foster entity