UID:
almafu_9960118551902883
Format:
1 online resource (ix, 205 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-009-00268-6
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1-009-00288-0
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1-108-99949-2
Content:
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.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 May 2021).
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Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Framing the Issue -- 1.1 Of Minds and Intellects -- 1.2 The Method of Inquiry -- 1.3 Self-Reflection: A Working Profile -- 1.4 The Direction of the Inquiry -- Part I The Architecture -- 2 Basic Resources -- 2.1 The Executive Angle: Working Offline -- 2.2 Managing Our Own Mental States -- 2.3 Autobiographical Memory -- 3 With Self in Mind -- 3.1 Senses of Selves -- 3.2 The Missing Sense of Me -- 3.3 A Projective Sense of Me -- Part II The Evolution -- 4 An Evolutionary Paradigm -- 4.1 Evolutionary Puzzles -- 4.2 The Versatile Genome -- 4.3 The Improvisational Brain -- 4.4 Developmental Evolution -- 5 Reasons for Self-Reflection -- 5.1 Standard Explanations -- 5.2 Clues from Memory -- 5.3 Cultural Sociopolitics -- 5.4 Sociocultural Self-Regulation -- 6 Scaffolding Self-Reflection -- 6.1 Scaffolding -- 6.2 Self-Strategizing -- 6.3 Conscience -- 7 A Public Sense of Me -- 7.1 The Public Construction -- 7.2 Outside Perspectives Internalized -- 7.3 A Public Understanding of Our Own Minds -- 8 Questions and Answers -- Glossary -- References -- Index.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-316-51818-3
Language:
English
Subjects:
Psychology
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Philosophy
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108999496
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