Why Me?

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-1-108-99557-3
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 215 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 295 g

This book explores the evolution of the mental competence for self-reflection: why it evolved, under what selection pressures, in what environments, out of what precursors, and with what mental resources. Integrating evolutionary, psychological, and philosophical perspectives, Radu J. Bogdan argues that the competence for self-reflection, uniquely human and initially autobiographical, evolved under strong and persistent sociocultural and political (collaborative and competitive) pressures on the developing minds of older children and later adults. Self-reflection originated in a basic propensity of the human brain to rehearse anticipatively mental states, speech acts, actions, and states of the world in order to service one's elaborate goal policies. These goal policies integrate offline representations of one's own mental states and actions and those of others in order to handle the challenges of a complex and dynamic sociopolitical and sociocultural life, calling for an adaptive intramental self-regulation: that intramental adaptation is self-reflection.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bogdan, Radu J

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Kognitivismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie Wahrnehmung
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie Lernen
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; 1. Framing the issue; Part I. The Architecture: 2. Basic resources; 3. With self in mind; Part II. The Evolution: 4. An evolutionary paradigm; 5. Reasons for self-reflection; 6. Scaffolding self-reflection; 7. A public sense of me; 8. Questions and answers; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Bogdan, Radu J
Radu J. Bogdan is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Cognitive Science at Tulane University, USA, and Director of the Open Mind Master Program in Cognitive Science at the University of Bucharest, Romania. He is the author of six books and many articles in cognitive science and philosophy of mind as well as the editor of several collections.