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"Research on the topic of self has increased significantly in recent years across a number of disciplines, including philosophy, psychology, psychopathology, and neuroscience. The Oxford Handbook of the Self is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that address questions in all of these areas. In philosophy and some areas of cognitive science, the emphasis on embodied cognition has fostered a renewed interest in rethinking personal identity, mind-body dualism, and overly Cartesian conceptions of self. Poststructuralist deconstructions of traditional metaphysical conceptions of subjectivity have led to debates about whether there are any grounds (moral if not metaphysical) for reconstructing the notion of self. Questions about whether selves actually exist or have an illusory status have been raised from perspectives as diverse as neuroscience, Buddhism, and narrative theory. With respect to self-agency, similar questions arise in experimental psychology. In addition, advances in developmental psychology have pushed to the forefront questions about the ontogenetic origin of self-experience, while studies of psychopathology suggest that concepts like self and agency are central to explaining important aspects of pathological experience. These and other issues motivate questions about how we understand, not only ""the self"", but also how we understand ourselves in social and cultural contexts."

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Author:   Shaun Gallagher (University of Central Florida)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.50cm , Height: 5.30cm , Length: 25.10cm
Weight:   1.449kg
ISBN:  

9780199548019

ISBN 10:   0199548013
Pages:   758
Publication Date:   10 February 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Shaun Gallagher: Introduction: A diversity of selves 1. Self: Beginnings and basics 1: John Barresi and Raymond Martin: History as Prologue: Western Theories of the Self 2: Philippe Rochat: What is it like to be a newborn? 3: Gordon G. Gallup, Jr., James R. Anderson, and Steven M. Platek: Self-recognition 4: Kai Vogeley and Shaun Gallagher: Self in the brain 2. Bodily selves 5: Quassim Cassam: The embodied self 6: José Bermúdez: Body awareness and self-consciousness 7: Manos Tsakiris: The sense of body ownership 8: Dorothée Legrand: Phenomenological dimensions of bodily self-consciousness 9: Aaron Henry and Evan Thompson: Witnessing from Here: Self-Awareness from a Bodily versus Embodied Perspective 3. Phenomenology and metaphysics of self 10: Galen Strawson: The minimal subject 11: Thomas Metzinger: The no-self alternative 12: Mark Siderits: Buddhist Non-Self: The No-Owner's Manual 13: Dan Zahavi: Unity of consciousness and the problem of self 4. Personal identity, narrative identity, and self-knowledge 14: John Campbell: Personal identity 15: Sydney Shoemaker: On what we are 16: John Perry: On knowing your self 17: Marya Schechtman: The narrative self 5. Action and the moral dimensions of self 18: Derek Parfit: The unimportance of identity 19: Elisabeth Pacherie: Self-agency 20: Alfred Mele: Self-control in action 21: David Shoemaker: Moral responsibility and the self 6. Self pathologies 22: Josef Parnas and Louis Sass: The structure of self-consciousness in schizophrenia 23: Jennifer Radden: Multiple selves 24: Peter Hobson: Autism and the self 25: Marcia Cavell: The self: Growth, integrity, and coming apart 7. The self in diverse contexts 26: Richard Menary: Our Glassy Essence: the Fallible Self in Pragmatist Thought 27: Kenneth Gergen: The social construction of self 28: Hubert Hermans: The Dialogical Self: A Process of Positioning in Space and Time 29: Elspeth Probyn: Glass Selves: Emotions, subjectivity, and the research process 30: Leonard Lawlor: The Postmodern Self: An Essay on Anachronism and Powerlessness 31: Lorraine Code: Self, subjectivity, and the instituted social imaginary

Reviews

<br> Shaun Gallagher has done a great job compiling this volume of excellent reads in the philosophy of the self and its adjacent scientific fields of application. The volume combines a balanced set of classical papers with texts that have been produced exclusively for this volume...This volume shows clearly that the philosophy of the self is among the most interesting and vital areas of research. -- Ludwig Jaskolla, Metapsychology Online Reviews<br><br><br><p><br>

Author Information

Shaun Gallagher is Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Sciences, and Senior Researcher at the Institute of Simulation and Training, at the University of Central Florida (USA); he has secondary research appointments at the University of Hertfordshire and the University of Copenhagen. He has been Visiting Scientist at the Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, and Visiting Professor at the University of Copenhagen, the Centre de Recherche en Epistémelogie Appliquée (CREA), Paris, and the Ecole Normale Supériure, Lyon.

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