Self and Consciousness: Multiple Perspectives

by Kessel; Frank S.

• ISBN13: 9780805805321
• ISBN10: 080580532X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1992-10-01
• Publisher: Psychology Pres

Summary

This volume contains an array of essays that reflect, and reflect upon, the recent revival of scholarly interest in the self and consciousness. Various relevant issues are addressed in conceptually challenging ways, such as how consciousness and different forms of self-relevant experience develop in infancy and childhood and are related to the acquisition of skill; the role of the self in social development; the phenomenology of being conscious and its metapsychological implications; and the cultural foundations of conceptualizations of consciousness. Written by notable scholars in several areas of psychology, philosophy, cognitive neuroscience, and anthropology, the essays are of interest to readers from a variety of disciplines concerned with central, substantive questions in contemporary social science, and the humanities.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. v
Preface	p. vii
The Development of Consciousness and the Acquisition of Skill	p. 1
Author's Retrospective Preface	p. 1
References	p. 17
The Role of the Self in Social Behavior	p. 19
References	p. 41
Being Conscious Is Being-In-The-World	p. 45
Culture and Consciousness: A Problem in the Anthropology of Knowledge	p. 64
References	p. 86
Brain Modules and Belief Formation	p. 88
Author's Retrospective Preface	p. 88
References	p. 101
The Self as A Center of Narrative Gravity	p. 103
References	p. 115
Author Index	p. 116
Subject Index	p. 119
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