The structure and development of self-consciousness : interdisciplinary perspectives
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The structure and development of self-consciousness : interdisciplinary perspectives
（Advances in consciousness research, v. 59）
John Benjamins Pub., c2004
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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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. (Series B)
Table of Contents
- 1. Acknowledgments
- 2. The ambiguity of self-consciousness: A preface (by Grunbaum, Thor)
- 3. 1. The emergence of self awareness as co-awareness in early child development (by Rochat, Philippe)
- 4. 2. Threesome intersubjectivity in infancy: A contribution to the development of self-awareness (by Fivaz-Depeursinge, Elisabeth)
- 5. 3. The embodied self-awareness of the infant: A challenge to the theory of mind? (by Zahavi, Dan)
- 6. 4. From self-recognition to self-consciousness (by Jeannerod, Marc)
- 7. 5. Agency, ownership, and alien control in schizophrenia (by Gallagher, Shaun)
- 8. 6. Tetraplegia and self-consciousness (by Cole, Jonathan)
- 9. 7. Self and identity (by Gron, Arne)
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