{"id":376,"date":"2026-04-15T13:55:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T13:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citations.tools.bio-logic.fr\/?p=376"},"modified":"2026-04-15T13:55:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T13:55:48","slug":"i-am-a-philosophical-inquiry-into-first-person-being","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citations.tools.bio-logic.fr\/?p=376","title":{"rendered":"I Am: A Philosophical Inquiry Into First-Person Being"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>DOI:<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/search?q=ti%3AI+AM%3A+A+PHILOSOPHICAL+INQUIRY+INTO+FIRST-PERSON+BEING&#038;amp;qt=advanced\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OA:W599474823<\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Authors:<\/h4>\n<p>Raymond Tallis<\/p>\n<h4>Abstract:<\/h4>\n<p>CONTENTS PREFACE CHAPTER 1 THE EXISTENTIAL INTUITION: AN INTRODUCTION 1.1 The Epiphanic Moment 1.2 The Biogenesis of the Existential Intuition 1.3 Preliminary Engagements CHAPTER 2 THEREFORE AM! THE COGITO ARGUMENT AND THE BIO- LOGIC OF FIRST PERSON IDENTITY 2.1 First-Person Being and the Existential Intuition: Introductory Observations 2.2 The Enduring Significance of the Cogito Argument 2.3 The Boring Logic of Third-Person Identity Statements 2.4 Kripke Tries to Liven Things Up 2.5 The Anomalous (and Interesting) Logic of First-Person Identity Statements 2.6 The Existential Intuition as a Bio-Logical Assumption 2.7 The Necessary Truth of the Existential Intuition 2.8 The Scope of What is Guaranteed by the Existential Intuition 2.9 The Porosity of the Cartesian Prison 2.10 Cartesianly Preferred and Non-Preferred Thoughts 2.11 The Essential Impurity in the Project of Pure Inquiry 2.12 &lsquo;I&rsquo;: From Philosophical Grammar to Existential Grammar 2.13 Concluding Comments: The Cogito Argument and the Existential Intuition CHAPTER 3 FIRST PERSON AUTHORITY AND IMMUNITY FROM ERROR 3.1 What Does the Existential Intuition Place Beyond Doubt? 3.2 The Idea of First Person Authority and its Limits. 3.3 The Bounds of First-Person Certainty 3.4 Widening the Bounds of Certainty CHAPTER 4 THE LOGICAL NECESSITY OF EMBODIMENT 4.1 Escaping the Cartesian Prison 4.2 I Think Therefore Am Embodied 4.3 Discarnate Existence 4.4 Scepticism about the Necessary Embodiment of the &lsquo;I&rsquo; 4.5 Self-Consciousness, Identity and Embodiment CHAPTER 5 THE EXISTENTIAL NECESSITY OF EMBODIMENT: NO DA-SEIN WITHOUT FORT-SEIN 5.1 Introduction 5.2 An Ontology that By-Passes Descartes: Exposition 5.3 An Ontology that By-Passes Descartes: Critique 5.4 Some Preliminary Reflections on Fort-sein 5.5 The Body Underwrites Fort-sein 5.6 Conclusion CHAPTER 6 REPORTS FROM EMBODIMENT: ON BEING, SUFFERING, HAVING, USING AND KNOWING A BODY 6.1 The Case for Embodiment: A Retrospect 6.2 Modes of Embodiment: Introduction 6.3 Being 6.4 Suffering (with a Glance at Enjoying) 6.5 Having and Using 6.6 Caretaking 6.7 Knowing (and Not Knowing) 6.8 Bodiless Being: A Cartesian Flashback 6.9 Being-a-Body Revisited 6.10 Embodiment: Conclusion 6.11 Delivering Fort-sein: Touching and Seeing 6.12 Further (Even More Puzzled) Reflections on the Body as the Guarantor and Curator of Here. 6.13 Here and I: Some Final Thoughts CHAPTER 7 THE EXISTENTIAL INTUITION AND PERSONAL IDENTITY 7.1 Introducing Personal Identity 7.2 Entity and Identity 7.3 Instantaneous and Enduring Identity 7.4 The Existential Intuition and the Enduring Self 7.5 The Persistence of Self: Personal Identity over Time 7.6 Enduring Identity over Time: Inner Aspect Theories 7.7 Enduring Identity over Time: Outer Aspect Theories 7.8 The Unthinkability of Parfit&rsquo;s (and Others&rsquo;) Thought Experiments 7.9 The Diagonal Self 7.10 Being (or Not Being) Oneself 7.11 Concluding Reflections: Identity, Am, Is and the Body CHAPTER 8 AGENCY AND FIRST-PERSON BEING 8.1 Introduction 8.2 The Encroachment of Determinism 8.3 The Existential Intuition and the Agentive Self 8.4 The Am-Ground of Agency: as Origin 8.5 The Parallel Expansion of Selfhood and Agency: The Self- Fulfilling Illusion 8.6 The Field of Freedom 8.7 Conclusion EPILOGUE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DOI: OA:W599474823 Authors: Raymond Tallis Abstract: CONTENTS PREFACE CHAPTER 1 THE EXISTENTIAL INTUITION: AN INTRODUCTION 1.1 The Epiphanic Moment 1.2 The Biogenesis of the Existential Intuition 1.3 Preliminary Engagements CHAPTER 2 THEREFORE AM! 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