Models of the Self

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ISBN: 9780907845096 | 0907845096
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Copyright: 11/1/1999

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A comprehensive reader on the problem of the self as seen from the viewpoints of philosophy, developmental psychology, robotics, cognitive neuroscience, psychopathology, semiotics, phenomenology and contemplative studies, based around a keynote paper by Galen Strawson.

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Contributors	p. vi
Editors' Introduction	p. ix
Philosophical controversies
'The Self'	p. 1
[Gamma]N[Omega][Theta]I [Sigma]EAYTON (Know Thyself)	p. 25
Unified Consciousness and the Self	p. 39
There Is No Problem of the Self	p. 49
The Self is a Semiotic Process	p. 63
Cognitive and neuroscientific models
Three Laws of Qualia: What Neurology Tells Us about the Biological Functions of Consciousness, Qualia and the Self	p. 83
The Periconscious Substrates of Consciousness: Affective States and the Evolutionary Origins of the Self	p. 113
Consciousness As Self-Function	p. 131
An Interpretation of the 'Self' from the Dynamical Systems Perspective: A Constructivist Approach	p. 149
The Dialogue of the Soul with Itself	p. 177
Developmental and phenomenological constraints
A Developmental- Ecological Perspective on Strawson's 'The Self'	p. 203
Mental and Bodily Awareness in Infancy: Consciousness of Self-existence	p. 213
Phenomenology and Agency: Methodological and Theoretical Issues in Strawson's 'The Self'	p. 231
Phenomenal Consciousness and Self Awareness: A Phenomenological Critique of Representational Theory	p. 253
Pathologies of the self
The Self in Contextualized Action	p. 273
On 'Being Faceless': Selfhood and Facial Embodiment	p. 301
Schizophrenia, Self-consciousness and the Modern Mind	p. 319
Pathologically Divided Minds, Synchronic Unity and Models of Self	p. 343
Meditation-based approaches
What Does Mysticism Have to Teach Us About Consciousness?	p. 361
A rDzogs-chen Buddhist Interpretation of the Sense of Self	p. 379
Consciousness It/Self	p. 395
Experiential Clarification of the Problem of Self	p. 407
'I' = Awareness	p. 421
Further methodological questions
Reduction and the Self	p. 431
Subject and Object	p. 441
Exceptional Persons: On the Limits of Imaginary Cases	p. 447
Being Scientific About Our Selves	p. 467
Response from keynote author
The Self and the Sesmet	p. 483
Index	p. 519
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