Grammars of identity/alterity: a structural approach
by Baumann, Gerd, Gingrich, Andre
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Going beyond the controversy surrounding personhood in various non-philosophical contexts, this book shows the implications for ethics of this conception of the person and the self. Taking the theory of John Locke as a starting point, it develops an original philosophical anthro…
The philosophical problem of personal identity has been the subject of debate in both Western and Buddhist philosophy. This book initiates a conversation between the two traditions showing how concepts and tools drawn from one philosophical tradition can help solve problems aris…
G.H. Mead: a reader
by Silva, Filipe Carreira da, Mead, George Herbert
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This work is now widely recognised as one of the founding texts in a new approach to analyzing the links between political power, expertise and the self. This "governmentality" perspective has had important implications for a range of academic disciplines including criminology, …
'How the Body Shapes the Mind' offers an examination of the role played by the body in perception and in the development and practice of thinking. Shaun Gallagher uses the concepts of body image and body schema to address a range of philosophical questions about cognition.
It is becoming increasingly apparent that Elizabeth Anscombe (1919-2001), long known as a student, friend and translator of Wittgenstein, was herself one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century. No Morality, No Self examines her two best-known papers, in whic…
Self-criticism is a personality trait that has been implicated in a wide range of psychopathologies and developmental arrests. Defined as the tendency to set unrealistically high standards for one's self and to adopt a punitive stance towards the self once these standards are no…
Approaches the familiar question about dream and reality by seeking to identify its subject matter: what is it that would be the dream if "this" were a dream? This book discusses the puzzle about death which is one of several extra-philosophical puzzles about the self.
