Oxford Handbook of the Self

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-19-954801-9
Verlag: OUP UK

Buch, Englisch, 768 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 1463 g

Reihe: Oxford Handbooks in Philosophy

The state-of-the-art book on the subject
A fast-growing area of philosophy connecting with other disciplines
Features an excellent line-up of contributors
Valuable for anyone working on philosophy, psychology, psychopathology, and neuroscience

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.

Zielgruppe

Students and scholars of philosophy and psychology, also religion and literary studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gallagher, Shaun

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophische Psychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Philosophische Psychologie, Logotherapie, Existenzanalyse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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: Sidney 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: Len Lawlor: The Postmodern Self: An Essay on Anachronism and Powerlessness
31: Lorraine Code: Self, subjectivity, and the instituted social imaginary

Über Autor(innen)

Gallagher, Shaun
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.

Edited by Shaun Gallagher, University of Central Florida

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.

Contributors:
James R. Anderson, University of Stirling
John Barresi, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
José Bermúdez, University of Stirling
John Campbell, University of California, Berkeley
Quassim Cassam, Warwick University
Marcia Cavell, University of California, Berkeley
Lorraine Code, York University, Toronto
Shaun Gallagher, University of Central Florida
Gordon G. Gallup, Jr., University at Albany
Kenneth Gergen, Swarthmore College
Aaron Henry
Hubert Hermans, Catholic University of Nijmegen
Peter Hobson, University College London
Len Lawlor, Penn State University
Dorothée Legrand, Center for Research in Applied Epistemology, Paris
Raymond Martin, Union College, New York
Alfred Mele, Florida State University
Richard Menary, University of Wollongong
Thomas Metzinger, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Elisabeth Pacherie, Institut Jean Nicod, CNRS
Josef Parnas, University of Copenhagen
Derek Parfit, University of Oxford
John Perry, Stanford University
Steven M. Platek, Georgia Gwinnett College
Elspeth Probyn, University of South Australia
Jennifer Radden, University of Massachusetts at Boston
Philippe Rochat, Emory University
Louis Sass, Rutgers University
Marya Schechtman, University of Illinois at Chicago
David Shoemaker, Bowling Green State University
Sidney Shoemaker, Cornell University
Galen Strawson, University of Reading
Evan Thompson, University of Toronto
Manos Tsakiris, Royal Holloway University of London
Kai Vogeley, Uniklinik Koln
Mark Siderits, Illinois State University
Dan Zahavi, University of Copenhagen