Self and Identity: Fundamental Issues (Rutgers Series on Self and Social Identity)

Self and identification were vital but unstable notions in psychology considering its adolescence as a systematic self-discipline. lately, psychologists and different social scientists have began to strengthen and refine the conceptual and empirical instruments for learning the complicated nature of self. This quantity provides a severe research of primary matters within the medical learn of self and identification.

Modest Nonconceptualism: Epistemology, Phenomenology, and Content

The writer defends nonconceptualism, the declare that perceptual adventure is nonconceptual and has nonconceptual content material. carrying on with the heated and complicated debate surrounding this subject over the last twenty years, she deals a sustained safety of a unique model of the view, Modest Nonconceptualism, and offers a scientific evaluate of a few of the crucial controversies within the debate.

Meaning in life and why it matters

Most folks, together with philosophers, are inclined to classify human factors as falling into considered one of different types: the egoistic or the altruistic, the self-interested or the ethical. in accordance with Susan Wolf, despite the fact that, a lot of what motivates us doesn't with ease healthy into this scheme. frequently we act neither for our personal sake nor out of accountability or an impersonal trouble for the realm.

The importance of how we see ourselves : self-identity and responsible agency

The previous fifteen years have obvious a wellspring of curiosity within the idea and sensible nature of the self. questions on the metaphysics of private id have preoccupied philosophical scholarship. much less cognizance has been paid to the subject of the self from the first-person perspective, the viewpoint of somebody who regards sure phenomena as particular of and necessary to her id.