Philip Gerrans

Broschiertes Buch

Anatomy of an Avatar

The Virtual Self in Pathologies of Self Awareness

Beschreibung

Anatomy of an Avatar provides a theoretical framework for theories of embodied selfhood anchored in homoestatic regulation, as well as exploring psychiatric disorders involving the self and the empirical application of concepts of free energy minimisation, active inference and predictive processing.

Autor

Philip Gerrans is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Adelaide. His work is at the intersection of psychiatry neuroscience and philosophy. He has written on developmental disorders, the emotions, delusions, disorders of self awareness, psychedelic experience and dreams. A unifying theme is the explanatory role of neurocomputational theory.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 449g
• ISBN-13: 9780198886648
• ISBN-10: 0198886640
• Artikelnr.: 70015083