Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

DeepDyve requires Javascript to function. Please enable Javascript on your browser to continue.

Structuring the Self

Part of the New Directions in Philosophy and Cognitive Science Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-31102-5

ISBN: 978-3-030-31101-8

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Oct 11, 2019

LitStream

Chapter 1The Self, Its Substance, and Its Structure: A Selective History

Beni, Majid Davoody

Pages: 1 –42

[This chapter outlines some important stages in the history of the evolution of the philosophical conception of the self. It overviews the philosophical theories of Aristotle, Descartes, Hume, and Kant about notions of the mind, perception, cognition, and the self. In this chapter, I also...
LitStream

Chapter 2Being Realist About Structures

Beni, Majid Davoody

Pages: 43 –80

[This chapter surveys the evolution of structural realism (SR), as a modified version of scientific realism. The problem of underdetermination of metaphysics by diverse theories of physics wreaks havoc with standard scientific realism. SR aims to overcome the problem of metaphysical...
LitStream

Chapter 3To Be Many or Not to Be, Grounds for a Structural Realist Account of the Self

Beni, Majid Davoody

Pages: 81 –116

[This chapter aims to show that the problem of metaphysical underdetermination, which has been introduced in the context of modern physics in the previous chapter, also arises in the field of philosophy of cognitive science. To be more precise, I show that the theoretical diversity that haunts...
LitStream

Chapter 4The Structural Realist Theory of the Self

Beni, Majid Davoody

Pages: 117 –158

[The chapter spells out the structural realist theory of the self (SRS). It builds upon what I said in Chaps. 2 and 3 to suggest that SRS can account for the issue of underdetermination of metaphysics of selfhood by the diversity of neuroscientific theories, without succumbing to the orthodox...
LitStream

Chapter 5Phenomenal Aspects of the Self

Beni, Majid Davoody

Pages: 159 –210

[There are different accounts of the phenomenal aspects of the self. This chapter reviews three important accounts of the self. These are the Integrated Information Theory of consciousness (IIT), the resting-state-based theory of consciousness, and the Free Energy Principle (FEP)-based theory of...
LitStream

Chapter 6Social and Moral Aspects of the Self

Beni, Majid Davoody

Pages: 211 –239

[The chapter accounts for social and moral aspects of the self along structural terms. There are already fine neuroscientific theories that account for the embodiment of the relational self in the manifold of interpersonal relations. Vittorio Gallese has developed such a theory. Gallese’s theory...

results per page

Prev
1
Next

Browse All eBooks