3 papers in the library · publishing 2006-2021
The Self August 20, 2021 Sacha Golob
The Phenomenological tradition is defined by its attempt to rethink the self and self-awareness. This chapter provides an overview of some of the fundamental developments within that tradition running from Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre and Merleau-Ponty to later writers such as Henry. I begin by sketching the key features: its relationship to naturalistic and transcendental approaches, the...
The Self August 20, 2021 Janet Metcalfe
Contemporary psychology has explored the concept of the self in relation to the second order characteristics of metacognition. On the dominant theoretical framework, cognitive processes are taken to be split into two specifically interrelated levels called the object level and the metalevel, with the latter monitoring and controlling the former. The metalevel is thought to be self referential....
The Self September 14, 2006 Richard Sorabji
Abstract My view in chapter one was that talk of me is, roughly speaking, talk of this person, and that a person is something that has psychological states and does things; for short that owns psychological states and actions. The importance of ownership will only become clear when I reach the subjects of agency and ethics.