Overview
- Provides a cross-disciplinary approach to the self informed by recent breakthroughs in neuroscience and theoretical biology
- Originates a new stream of research by projecting the flourishing theory of Structural Realism into the field of cognitive science
- Suggests a way of reconciling various and at times opposing scientific and philosophical theories of the field
Part of the book series: New Directions in Philosophy and Cognitive Science (NDPCS)
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This book presents a unified account of the self, based on a network of knowledge sourced from several scientific accounts of selfhood. Beni constructs his ontological account of the self from the common structure that underpins the theoretical diversity that is manifested in rival and sometimes incompatible scientific accounts of the self and its aspects. The enterprise is inspired by recent structural realist theories in the philosophy of science, specifying the basic structure of the self, and explaining how representational, phenomenal, and social aspects of the self are embodied within this structure.
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dr. Majid D. Beni is affiliated with the Department of History, Philosophy and Religious Studies at Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan. He is the author of Cognitive Structural Realism (2019).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Structuring the Self
Authors: Majid Davoody Beni
Series Title: New Directions in Philosophy and Cognitive Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31102-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-31101-8Published: 21 October 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-31104-9Published: 21 October 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-31102-5Published: 10 October 2019
Series ISSN: 2946-2959
Series E-ISSN: 2946-2967
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 245
Topics: Philosophy of Mind, Cognitive Psychology, Philosophy of Science