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Our own minds : sociocultural grounds for self-consciousness / Radu J. Bogdan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bogdan, Radu J.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Self (Philosophy).
- Self-consciousness (Awareness).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 210 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Here, Radu Bogdan takes a developmental perspective on consciousness and proposes that children's functional capacity for consciousness is assembled during development out of a variety of ontogenetic adaptations that respond mostly to sociocultural challenges specific to distinct stages of childhood.
- Contents:
- Setting the stage
- Developmental asymmetries
- Theories of self-understanding
- Premises
- Becoming self-conscious
- Turning to our own minds
- Minding our own minds
- Loose ends.
- Notes:
- "Bradford book."
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-205) and index.
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-11898-X
- 9786613118981
- 0-262-28921-0
- OCLC:
- 727952383
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