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Self-consciousness is a topic of considerable importance to a variety of empirical and theoretical disciplines such as developmental and social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry, and philosophy. This volume presents essays on self-consciousness by prominent psychologists, cognitive neurologists, and philosophers. Some of the topics included are the infants’ sense of self and others, theory of mind, phenomenology of embodiment, neural mechanisms of action attribution, and hermeneutics of the self. A number of these essays argue in turn that empirical findings in developmental psychology, phenomenological analyses of embodiment, or studies of pathological self-experiences point to the existence of a type of self-consciousness that does not require any explicit I —thought or self-observation, but is more adequately described as a pre-reflective, embodied form of self-familiarity. The different contributions in the volume amply demonstrate that self-consciousness is a complex multifaceted phenomenon that calls for an integration of different complementary interdisciplinary perspectives.
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The Structure and Development of Self-Consciousness
Advances in Consciousness Research Advances in Consciousness Research provides a forum for scholars from different scientific disciplines and fields of knowledge who study consciousness in its multifaceted aspects. Thus the Series will include (but not be limited to) the various areas of cognitive science, including cognitive psychology, linguistics, brain science and philosophy. The orientation of the Series is toward developing new interdisciplinary and integrative approaches for the investigation, description and theory of consciousness, as well as the practical consequences of this research for the individual and society. Series B: Research in progress. Experimental, descriptive and clinical research in consciousness.
Editor Maxim I. Stamenov Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Editorial Board David Chalmers
Steven Macknik
University of Arizona
Barrow Neurological Institute
Gordon G. Globus
George Mandler
University of California at Irvine
University of California at San Diego
Ray Jackendoff
Susana Martinez-Conde
Brandeis University
Barrow Neurological Institute
Christof Koch
John R. Searle
California Institute of Technology
University of California at Berkeley
Stephen Kosslyn
Petra Stoerig
Harvard University
Universität Düsseldorf
Earl Mac Cormac Duke University
Volume 59 The Structure and Development of Self-Consciousness: Interdisciplinary perspectives Edited by Dan Zahavi, Thor Grünbaum and Josef Parnas
The Structure and Development of Self-Consciousness Interdisciplinary perspectives
Edited by
Dan Zahavi Thor Grünbaum Josef Parnas Danish National Research Foundation: Center for Subjectivity Research
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The structure and development of self-consciousness : interdisciplinary perspectives / edited by Dan Zahavi, Thor Grünbaum, Josef Parnas. p. cm. (Advances in Consciousness Research, issn 1381–589X ; v. 59) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Self-preception--Congresses. I. Zahavi, Dan. II. Grünbaum, Thor & Parnas, Josef. III. Series. BF697.5.S43 S78 2004 153.7’5-dc22 isbn 90 272 5195 9 (Eur.) / 1 58811 571 2 (US) (Hb; alk. paper)
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