Oxford Handbook of the Self

Name: Oxford Handbook of the Self
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ISBN: 9780199679546

ISBN-10: 0199679541

ISBN-13: 9780199679546

Edition: 2013

Authors: Shaun Gallagher

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Book details

List price: $32.49
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 9/12/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 768
Size: 9.60" wide x 6.70" long x 1.80" tall
Weight: 2.992
Language: English

Shaun Gallagher is Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at the University of Central Florida and coeditor of the journal Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences.



List of contributors


Introduction: A Diversity of Selves




Self: Beginnings and Basics



History as Prologue: Western Theories of the Self




What is it Like to be a Newborn?




Self-Recognition




Self in the Brain




Bodily Selves



The Embodied Self




Bodily Awareness and Self-Consciousness




The Sense of Body Ownership




Phenomenological Dimensions of Bodily Self-Consciousness




Witnessing from Here: Self-Awareness from a Bodily versus Embodied Perspective




Phenomenology and Metaphysics of Self



The Minimal Subject




The No-Self Alternative




Buddhist Non-Self: The No-Owner's Manual




Unity of Consciousness and the Problem of Self




Personal Identity, Narrative Identity, and Self-Knowledge



Personal Identity




On What we are




On Knowing one's Self




The Narrative Self




Action and the Moral Dimensions of the Self



The Unimportance of Identity




Self-Agency




Self-Control in Action




Moral Responsibility and the Self




Self Pathologies



The Structure of Self-Consciousness in Schizophrenia




Multiple Selves




Autism and the Self




The Self: Growth, Integrity, and Coming Apart




The Self in Diverse Contexts



Our Glassy Essence: The Fallible Self in Pragmatist Thought




The Social Construction of Self




The Dialogical Self: A Process of Positioning in Space and Time




Glass Selves: Emotions, Subjectivity, and the Research Process




The Postmodern Self: An Essay on Anachronism and Powerlessness




Self, Subjectivity, and the Instituted Social Imaginary



Index