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1 online resource (xi, 745 pages) : illustrations |
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Oxford handbooks in philosophy |
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Oxford handbooks.
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Oxford handbooks in philosophy.
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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 |
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English |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Self (Philosophy)
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Self.
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Ego
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Self
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Self (Philosophy)
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Selbst
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Philosophie
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Philosophy.
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Philosophy & Religion.
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Speculative Philosophy.
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Selbst.
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Philosophie.
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Electronic book
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Author |
Gallagher, Shaun, 1948-
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ISBN |
9780191724848 |
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019172484X |
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