Details

Subject(s)

• Self (Philosophy)—Handbooks, manuals, etc [Browse]
• Self—Handbooks, manuals, etc [Browse]

Editor

• Gallagher, Shaun, 1948- [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Handbooks and manuals [Browse]

Series

Oxford handbooks in philosophy The Oxford handbook of the self

Summary note

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.

Notes

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Language note

English

Contents

• Introduction : A diversity of selves / Shaun Gallagher
• History as prologue : western theories of the self / John Barresi, Raymond Martin
• What is it like to be a newborn? / Philippe Rochat
• Self-recognition / Gordon G. Gallup, Jr., James R. Anderson, Steven M. Platek
• Self in the brain / Kai Vogeley, 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, 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, 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.

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Other title(s)

• Handbook of the self
• Self

ISBN

• 9780191724848
• 019172484X

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