Models of the Self
by Gallagher, ShaunFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1999-11-01
Publisher(s): Ingram Pub Services
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Summary
A comprehensive reader on the problem of the self as seen from the viewpoints of philosophy, developmental psychology, robotics, cognitive neuroscience, psychopathology, semiotics, phenomenology and contemplative studies, based around a keynote paper by Galen Strawson.
Table of Contents
| Contributors | p. vi |
| Editors' Introduction | p. ix |
| Philosophical controversies | |
| 'The Self' | p. 1 |
| [Gamma]N[Omega][Theta]I [Sigma]EAYTON (Know Thyself) | p. 25 |
| Unified Consciousness and the Self | p. 39 |
| There Is No Problem of the Self | p. 49 |
| The Self is a Semiotic Process | p. 63 |
| Cognitive and neuroscientific models | |
| Three Laws of Qualia: What Neurology Tells Us about the Biological Functions of Consciousness, Qualia and the Self | p. 83 |
| The Periconscious Substrates of Consciousness: Affective States and the Evolutionary Origins of the Self | p. 113 |
| Consciousness As Self-Function | p. 131 |
| An Interpretation of the 'Self' from the Dynamical Systems Perspective: A Constructivist Approach | p. 149 |
| The Dialogue of the Soul with Itself | p. 177 |
| Developmental and phenomenological constraints | |
| A Developmental- Ecological Perspective on Strawson's 'The Self' | p. 203 |
| Mental and Bodily Awareness in Infancy: Consciousness of Self-existence | p. 213 |
| Phenomenology and Agency: Methodological and Theoretical Issues in Strawson's 'The Self' | p. 231 |
| Phenomenal Consciousness and Self Awareness: A Phenomenological Critique of Representational Theory | p. 253 |
| Pathologies of the self | |
| The Self in Contextualized Action | p. 273 |
| On 'Being Faceless': Selfhood and Facial Embodiment | p. 301 |
| Schizophrenia, Self-consciousness and the Modern Mind | p. 319 |
| Pathologically Divided Minds, Synchronic Unity and Models of Self | p. 343 |
| Meditation-based approaches | |
| What Does Mysticism Have to Teach Us About Consciousness? | p. 361 |
| A rDzogs-chen Buddhist Interpretation of the Sense of Self | p. 379 |
| Consciousness It/Self | p. 395 |
| Experiential Clarification of the Problem of Self | p. 407 |
| 'I' = Awareness | p. 421 |
| Further methodological questions | |
| Reduction and the Self | p. 431 |
| Subject and Object | p. 441 |
| Exceptional Persons: On the Limits of Imaginary Cases | p. 447 |
| Being Scientific About Our Selves | p. 467 |
| Response from keynote author | |
| The Self and the Sesmet | p. 483 |
| Index | p. 519 |
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