Richard S. Hallam

Virtual Selves, Real Persons

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 657g
• ISBN-13: 9780521509893
• ISBN-10: 0521509890
• Artikelnr.: 26526521

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Part I. A constructionist framework for person and self: 1. The main themes: virtual selves, mind-body dualism and natural science
2. Conceptualising self
3. Generic persons and selves
4. Multiplicity within singularity
5. Sense-of-self: the first person perspective
6. Self in historical explanation
7. Self as historically positioned and narrated
Part II. Person and Self in Science: 8. Philosophy's legacy to a science of self
9. Self in mind and brain
10. Self, person as agent and natural causation
11. Self in child development
12. Self in human evolution
13. Loose ends and split hairs
Bibliography
Index.