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Title The Oxford handbook of the self / edited by Shaun Gallagher
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 745 pages) : illustrations
Series Oxford handbooks in philosophy
Oxford handbooks.
Oxford handbooks in philosophy.
Contents Introduction : a diversity of selves / Shaun Gallagher -- History as prologue : western theories of the self / John Barresi and Raymond Martin -- What is it like to be a newborn? / Philippe Rochat -- Self-recognition / Gordon G. Gallup, Jr., James R. Anderson, and Steven M. Platek -- Self on the brain / Kai Vogeley and Shaun Gallagher -- The embodied self / Quassim Cassam -- Bodily awareness and self-consciousness / José Luis Bermúdez -- The sense of body ownership / Manos Tsakiris -- Phenomenological dimensions of bodily self-consciousness / Dorothée Legrand -- Witnessing from here : self-awareness from a bodily versus embodied perspective / Aaron Henry and Evan Thompson -- The minimal subject / Galen Strawson -- The no-self alternative / Thomas Metzinger -- Buddhist non-self : the no-owner's manual / Mark Siderits -- Unity of consciousness and the problem of self / Dan Zahavi -- Personal identity / John Campbell -- On what we are / Sydney Shoemaker -- On knowing one's self / John Perry -- The narrative self / Marya Schectman -- The unimportance of identity / Derek Parfit -- Self-agency / Elisabeth Pacherie -- Self-control in action / Alfred R. Mele -- Moral responsibility and the self / David W. Shoemaker -- The structure of self-consciousness in schizophrenia / Josef Parnas and Louis A. Sass -- Multiple selves / Jennifer Radden -- Autism and the self / Peter R. Hobson -- The self : growth, integrity, and coming apart / Marcia Cavell -- Our glassy essence : the fallible self in pragmatist thought / Richard Menary -- The social construction of self / Kenneth J. Gergen -- The dialogical self : a process of positioning in space and time / Hubert J.M. Hermans -- Glass selves : emotions, subjectivity, and the research process / Elspeth Probyn -- The postmodern self : an essay on anachronism and powerlessness / Leonard Lawlor -- Self, subjectivity, and the instituted social imaginary / Lorraine Code
Summary This handbook explores a fascinating diversity of questions about our understanding of self from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives, including philosophy, ethics, psychology, neuroscience, psychopathology, narrative, and postmodern theories
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
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Subject Self (Philosophy)
Self.
Ego
Self
Self (Philosophy)
Selbst
Philosophie
Philosophy.
Philosophy & Religion.
Speculative Philosophy.
Selbst.
Philosophie.
Form Electronic book
Author Gallagher, Shaun, 1948-
ISBN 9780191724848
019172484X
Other Titles Self