The Self and its Defenses: From Psychodynamics to Cognitive Science

Author:   Massimo Marraffa ,  Michele Di Francesco ,  Alfredo Paternoster
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2016
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Pages:   219
Publication Date:   26 February 2021
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Author:   Massimo Marraffa ,  Michele Di Francesco ,  Alfredo Paternoster
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2016
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781349847518


ISBN 10:   1349847518
Pages:   219
Publication Date:   26 February 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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1. Introduction.- 2. 1. The Unconscious Mind.- 3. 2. Making the Self, I: Bodily Self-Consciousness.- 4. 3. Making the Self, II: Psychological Self-Consciousness.- 4. The Self as a Center of Causal Gravity.- 5. Epilogue. 

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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).

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