Models of the self
By: edited by Shaun Gallagher and Jonathan Shear.
Contributors: Gallagher, Shaun, 1948-; Shear, J.
Publisher: Imprint Academic
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Thorverton, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 524
Subjects: Self; Consciousness; Mind and body
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Philosophical controversies. 'The self' / Galen Strawson; title: Know thyself / Kathleen V. Wilkes; title: Unified consciousness and the self / Andrew Brook; title: There is no problem of the self / Eric T. Olson; title: The self is a semiotic process / John Pickering; title: Cognitive and neuroscientific models. Three laws of qualia: what neurology tells us about the biological functions of consciousness, qualia and the self / V.S. Ramachandran & W. Hirstein; title: The periconscious substrates of consciousness: affective states and the evolutionary origins of the self / Jaak Panksepp; title: Consciousness as self-function / Donald Perlis; title: An interpretation of the 'self' from the dynamical systems perspective: a constructivist approach / Jun Tani; title: The dialogue of the soul with itself / James Blachowicz; title: Developmental and phenomenological constraints. A developmental-ecological perspective on Strawson's 'The self' / George Butterworth; title: Mental and bodily awareness in infancy: consciousness of self-existence / Maria Legerstee; title: Phenomenology and agency: methodological and theoretical issues in Strawson's 'The self' / Maxine Sheets-Johnstone; title: Phenomenal consciousness and self awareness: a phenomenological critique of representational theory / D. Zahavi & J. Parnas; title: Pathologies of the self. The self in contextualized action / Shaun Gallagher and Anthony J. Marcel; title: On 'being faceless': selfhood and facial embodiment / Jonathan Cole; title: Schizophrenia, self-consciousness and the modern mind / Louis A. Sass; title: Pathologically divided minds, synchronic unity and models of self / Jennifer Radden; title: Meditation-based approaches. What does mysticism have to teach us about consciousness? / Robert Forman; title: A rDzogs-chen Buddhist interpretation of the sense of self / Jeremy Hayward; title: Consciousness it/self / Steven W. Laycock; title: Experiential clarification of the problem of self / Jonathan Shear; title: 'I' = awareness / Arthur J. Deikman; title: Further methodological questions. Reduction and the self / José Louis Bermúdez; title: Subject and object / Mait Edey; title: Exceptional persons: on the limits of imaginary cases / Tamar Szabó Gendler; title: Being scientific about our selves / Mary Midgley; title: Response from keynote author: The self and SESMET / Galen Strawson.