Professor Christopher Peacocke (UCL and Columbia University) discusses ways in which notions of self-consciousness go beyond the forms of first person representation discussed in the first three lectures in this series. He distinguishes, and characterizes, two varieties of self-consciousness,...

Professor Christopher Peacocke (UCL and Columbia University) applies the theory of the first person and of conscious subjects developed in the earlier lectures in this series in defence of some famous theses of Descartes, including his argument Cogito ergo Sum. Peacocke also considers Bernard...

Professor Christopher Peacocke (UCL and Columbia University) further develops the theory of subjects of consciousness outlined in Lecture One in this series, and applies the results against reductionist conceptions of subjects, and against Daniel Dennett’s view of subjects as centres of narrative...