What’s missing in episodic selfhood? A Kierkegaardian response to Galen Strawson Stokes, Patrick 2010, What’s missing in episodic selfhood? A Kierkegaardian response to Galen Strawson, Journal of consciousness studies, vol. 17, no. 1-2, pp. 119-143. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title What’s missing in episodic selfhood? A Kierkegaardian response to Galen Strawson Author(s) Stokes, Patrick orcid.org/0000-0001-9574-6064 Journal name Journal of consciousness studies Volume number 17 Issue number 1-2 Start page 119 End page 143 Total pages 25 Publisher Imprint Academic Place of publication Devon, England Publication date 2010-02 ISSN 1355-8250 2051-2201 Keyword(s) Kierkegaard Galen Strawson self-experience Summary Galen Strawson has articulated a spectrum of 'temporal temperaments' populated at one end by 'Diachronics,' who experience their selves (understood as a 'present mental entity') as persisting across time, and at the other end by 'Episodics', who lack this sense of temporal extension. Strawson provides lucid descriptions of Episodic self-experience, and further argues that nothing normatively significant depends upon Diachronicity. Thus, neither temperament is inherently preferable. However, this last claim requires a non-reductive phenomenology of Diachronicity that Strawson does not supply. I offer Kierkegaard's account of 'contemporaneity' as a candidate for this missing phenomenology of Diachronic self-experience. Kierkegaard offers a compelling description of Diachronic self-experience that offers more parsimonious explanations for certain puzzling features of Episodicity than Strawson's account does. Yet Kierkegaard's account is irreducibly normative in character; if Strawsonians reject this account of Diachronicity, they must either provide another, normatively-neutral one, or abandon neutrality between Episodicity and Diachronicity. Language eng Field of Research 220311 Philosophical Psychology (incl Moral Psychology and Philosophy of Action) 220309 Metaphysics Socio Economic Objective 970122 Expanding Knowledge in Philosophy and Religious Studies HERDC Research category C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30063323 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Arts and Education School of Humanities and Social Sciences Related Links Link Description Connect to published version - restricted access Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Sat, 17 May 2014, 18:06:28 EST Sat, 17 May 2014, 18:13:18 EST Mon, 19 May 2014, 08:08:28 EST Tue, 20 May 2014, 14:08:33 EST Tue, 20 May 2014, 14:56:20 EST Tue, 20 May 2014, 14:57:04 EST Wed, 21 May 2014, 08:44:47 EST Wed, 21 May 2014, 11:06:19 EST Wed, 21 May 2014, 11:07:59 EST Mon, 09 Jun 2014, 10:22:49 EST Wed, 02 Jul 2014, 14:33:19 EST Fri, 15 Aug 2014, 08:38:22 EST Thu, 11 Dec 2014, 20:19:00 EST Sat, 25 Dec 2021, 01:31:29 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 7 times in TR Web of Science Cited 9 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 649 Abstract Views, 0 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Sat, 17 May 2014, 18:06:27 EST by Patrick Stokes