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- Provides an accessible and information discussion of the various approaches towards how the “narrative self” is constructed after the onset of bodily self-awareness.
- Crosses the disciplines of idealism and elimination to create a new perspective on self-consciousness.
- Updates the field of the self by creating new theories from the rejection of previous movements of thought.
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Michele Di Francesco is Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the School of Advanced Studies IUSS Pavia, Italy. His research focuses on issues in the philosophy of mind and cognitive science, and in particular on the philosophical problems of subjective experience. He is a past president of the European and the Italian Societies for Analytic Philosophy. His previous publications include the book L'io e i suoi Sé (1998), and the articles ‘The End of the World? Mental Causation, Explanation and Metaphysics’ (with A. Tomasetta) in the journal Humana.Mente (2015), and ‘Consciousness and the Self’ in the journal Functional Neurology (2008).
Massimo Marraffa is Associate Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Rome ‘Roma Tre’, Italy. His research focuses on issues in the philosophy of mind and philosophy of psychology, on which he has published books, articles and book chapters in Italian and English. His previous publications include the co-edited volume Cartographies of the Mind (2007) and the article, written with A. Paternoster, ‘Disentangling the Self: A Naturalistic Approach to Narrative Self-construction’ in the journal New Ideas in Psychology (2016).
Alfredo Paternoster is Associate Professor of Philosophy of Language at the University of Bergamo, Italy. His research focuses on issues in the philosophy of mind and philosophy of language. His previous publications include the book Introduzione alla filosofia della mente (2010), the article, written with M. Marraffa, ‘Functions, levels and mechanisms. Explanation in cognitive science and its problems’ in the journal Theory and Psychology (2013), and the chapter ‘Reconstructing (Phenomenal) Consciousness’, in the book edited by A. Reboul, Mind, Values and Metaphysics (2014).Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Self and its Defenses
Book Subtitle: From Psychodynamics to Cognitive Science
Authors: Massimo Marraffa, Michele Di Francesco, Alfredo Paternoster
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57385-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-57384-1Published: 19 December 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-84751-8Published: 26 February 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-57385-8Published: 08 December 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 219
Topics: Philosophy of Mind, Cognitive Psychology, Psychoanalysis, Self and Identity