The Oxford Handbook of the Self
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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The Oxford Handbook of the Self
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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The Oxford Handbook of the Self

The Oxford Handbook of the Self

by Shaun Gallagher (Editor)
The Oxford Handbook of the Self

The Oxford Handbook of the Self

by Shaun Gallagher (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780199679546
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 11/15/2013
Series: Oxford Handbooks
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 760
Product dimensions: 6.60(w) x 9.60(h) x 1.70(d)

About the Author

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 Epistemelogie Appliquee (CREA), Paris, and the Ecole Normale Superiure, Lyon.

Table of Contents

Introduction: A diversity of selves, Shaun Gallagher1. Self: Beginnings and basics1. History as Prologue: Western Theories of the Self, John Barresi and Raymond Martin2. What is it like to be a newborn?, Philippe Rochat3. Self-recognition, Gordon G. Gallup, Jr., James R. Anderson, and Steven M. Platek4. Self in the brain, Kai Vogeley and Shaun Gallagher2. Bodily selves5. The embodied self, Quassim Cassam6. Body awareness and self-consciousness, Jose Bermudez7. The sense of body ownership, Manos Tsakiris8. Phenomenological dimensions of bodily self-consciousness, Dorothee Legrand9. Witnessing from Here: Self-Awareness from a Bodily versus Embodied Perspective, Aaron Henry and Evan Thompson3. Phenomenology and metaphysics of self10. The minimal subject, Galen Strawson11. The no-self alternative, Thomas Metzinger12. Buddhist Non-Self: The No-Owner's Manual, Mark Siderits13. Unity of consciousness and the problem of self, Dan Zahavi4. Personal identity, narrative identity, and self-knowledge14. Personal identity, John Campbell15. On what we are, Sydney Shoemaker16. On knowing your self, John Perry17. The narrative self, Marya Schechtman5. Action and the moral dimensions of self18. The unimportance of identity, Derek Parfit19. Self-agency, Elisabeth Pacherie20. Self-control in action, Alfred Mele21. Moral responsibility and the self, David Shoemaker6. Self pathologies22. The structure of self-consciousness in schizophrenia, Josef Parnas and Louis Sass23. Multiple selves, Jennifer Radden24. Autism and the self, Peter Hobson25. The self: Growth, integrity, and coming apart, Marcia Cavell7. The self in diverse contexts26. iOur Glassy Essence/i: the Fallible Self in Pragmatist Thought, Richard Menary27. The social construction of self, Kenneth Gergen28. The Dialogical Self: A Process of Positioning in Space and Time, Hubert Hermans29. Glass Selves: Emotions, subjectivity, and the research process, Elspeth Probyn30. The Postmodern Self: An Essay on Anachronism and Powerlessness, Leonard Lawlor31. Self, subjectivity, and the instituted social imaginary, Lorraine Code
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