The structure and development of self-consciousness : interdisciplinary perspectives / edited by Dan Zahavi, Thor Grunbaum, Joseph Parnas.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Zahavi, Dan.

Grünbaum, Thor.

Parnas, Josef.

Series:

Advances in consciousness research ; v. 59.

Advances in consciousness research, 1381-589X ; v. 59

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Self-perception--Congresses.

Self-perception.

Physical Description:

xiv, 160 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins Pub., c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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).

Contents:

The Structure and Development of Self-Consciousness

Editorial page

Title page

LCC page

Table of contents

Acknowledgments

The ambiguity of self-consciousness

References

The emergence of self-awareness as co-awareness in early child development

1. Public and private re-presentation of the self: The Irreconcilable

2. Specular image and levels of self-awareness

3. Early development of self-awareness

3.1. Self-world differentiation at birth

3.2. Emerging intersubjectivity and self-exploration at 2 months

3.3. First signs of self-objectification by 18 months

3.4. Developing self permanence by 24 months

3.5. Others in mind by 36 months and older

4. The development of co-awareness: Toward a collaborative and seductive stance

Threesome intersubjectivity in infancy

1. Triangular interactions

2. The Lausanne trilogue play paradigm

3. Triangular process in the domain of secondary intersubjectivity

4. Triangular process in the domain of primary intersubjectivity

5. Discussion and conclusion

Acknowledgment

Notes

The embodied self-awareness of the infant

1. Theory of mind

2. Theory-theory of self-awareness

3. Developmental counter-evidence

4. Embodiment and intersubjectivity

5. Phenomenological misgivings

6. Conclusion

From self-recognition to self-consciousness

1. Introduction

2. The role of sensory cues in self-recognition

3. The Nielsen paradigm for studying the recognition of self-generated actions

4. Recent experiments using the Nielsen substitution paradigm

5. Self recognition in the social context

6. The nature of the mechanisms involved in action recognition

6.1. The central monitoring hypothesis of action recognition.

6.2. The simulation theory: From motor imagery to action attribution

6.3. Differences and similarities between the two theories

7. A neural hypothesis for self-recognition and its failures: The `Who' system

Agency, ownership, and alien control in schizophrenia

1. Senses of agency and ownership

2. Top-down explanations

3. A phenomenologically guided bottom-up account

4. Misattribution of agency

5. Conclusion

Tetraplegia and self-consciousness

1. Introduction: What self are we conscious of?

2. The neurological impairment

levels of loss

3. The self and the impairment

3.1. The servant and the master

3.2. A voyage of discovery

3.3. The feeling of nothing

4. The world and the disability

4.1. Leaving stones outside?

4.2. ``The best thing…''

4.3. Models and definitions

5. The other

social currency with SCI

5.1. Seeing the wheelchair?

5.2. There is no manual

5.3. Leaving dependency

5.4. Albert Bull

6. Conclusion: Doing into Being?

Self and identity

1. Concepts of identity

2. Two approaches

3. Identity and identification - and self-identification

4. Self-relation (1)

5. Selfhood and alterity

5.1. Self as an other

5.2. The other as a self

5.3. Dialectics of recognition

6. Selfhood and temporality

7. Normativity

8. Hermeneutics of the self

9. Self-relation (2)

Index

The series Advances in Consciousness Research.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612255243

9781282255241

128225524X

9789027295132

9027295131

9781423772354

1423772350

OCLC:

69194036