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Virtual selves, real persons : a dialogue across disciplines /

How do we know and understand who we really are as human beings? The concept of 'the self' is central to many strands of psychology and philosophy. This book tackles the problem of how to define persons and selves and discusses the ways in which different disciplines, such as biology, soci...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hallam, Richard S.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The main themes : virtual selves, mind-body dualism, and natural science
  • Conceptualising self
  • Generic persons and selves
  • Multiplicity within singularity
  • Sense-of-self : the first-person perspective
  • Self in historical explanation
  • Self as historically positioned and narrated
  • Philosophy's legacy to a science of self
  • Self in mind and brain
  • Self, person as agent and natural causation
  • Self in child development
  • Self in human evolution
  • Loose ends and split hairs.