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Constructing the self /
Constructing the Self analyzes the narrative conception of self, filling a serious gap in philosophy and grounding discussion in other disciplines. It answers the questions: What are the connections between our interpretations, selfhood, and consciou.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
©2008.
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| Colección: | Advances in consciousness research ;
v. 73. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- On being a person
- Personhood
- Re-identification
- Characterization
- Whither narrativity
- Persons vs. selves redux
- Against narrativity
- Clive and the Pirahã : narrative counter-examples?
- Self stories
- A brief and skewed primer on narratology
- The point of nonliterary nonfiction
- The structure of self narratives
- The function of personal narratives
- The development of self
- Piaget's legacy
- A different interpretation
- The importance of emotional attachment
- Life stories
- Cognition as narrative instrument
- Emotional interlude
- The social construction of emotion
- Appraisal theories of emotion
- The continuum hypothesis
- Cortical emotions
- Multiple processing systems
- Dynamic dual systems : a speculative hypothesis
- Unconscious mental life
- Mental content
- An "intelligent" unconscious?
- A "dumb" unconscious
- Philosopher's redux
- Unconscious narratives and unconscious selves
- Multiplex and multiple selves
- Questioning the continuum view of dissociative disorders
- Multiplex selves
- Unconstrained storytelling
- Implications
- Life at the borders
- Weak wills
- Addictions
- Addiction as a life-habit
- Self-control
- Tourette's syndrome and other assorted tics
- Death, violence and the myth of autonomy
- The assumption of autonomy
- Rational suicide
- Violence and the prefrontal cortex
- Whither autonomy?