Why me? : the sociocultural evolution of a self-reflective mind

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Why me? : the sociocultural evolution of a self-reflective mind

Radu J. Bogdan

Cambridge University Press, 2021

  • : hbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-202) and index

Summary: "This introductory chapter outlines the main themes of the book. The first section places the self-reflective mind within a larger classification of kinds of minds, animal as well as human. The second section provides a working analytic profile of self-reflection, focused on the main executive, cognitive and sense-of-selfhood tasks involved in self-reflection, which guide the present inquiry into the mental architecture and its component abilities that run self-reflections. The third section previews the general direction and spirit of this inquiry"-- Provided by publisher

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This book explores the evolution of the mental competence for self-reflection: why it evolved, under what selection pressures, in what environments, out of what precursors, and with what mental resources. Integrating evolutionary, psychological, and philosophical perspectives, Radu J. Bogdan argues that the competence for self-reflection, uniquely human and initially autobiographical, evolved under strong and persistent sociocultural and political (collaborative and competitive) pressures on the developing minds of older children and later adults. Self-reflection originated in a basic propensity of the human brain to rehearse anticipatively mental states, speech acts, actions, and states of the world in order to service one's elaborate goal policies. These goal policies integrate offline representations of one's own mental states and actions and those of others in order to handle the challenges of a complex and dynamic sociopolitical and sociocultural life, calling for an adaptive intramental self-regulation: that intramental adaptation is self-reflection.

目次

  • Introduction
  • 1. Framing the issue
  • Part I. The Architecture: 2. Basic resources
  • 3. With self in mind
  • Part II. The Evolution: 4. An evolutionary paradigm
  • 5. Reasons for self-reflection
  • 6. Scaffolding self-reflection
  • 7. A public sense of me
  • 8. Questions and answers
  • Index.

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