P S Y C H E 11 (6), October 2005
M. Jakobsen
D. Zahavi, T. Grunbaum & J. Parnas (eds.): The Structure and Development of Self-Consciousness
The Structure and Development of Self-Consciousness is a collection of articles on self-consciousness by psychologists, cognitive scientists and philosophers. In the preface Zahavi and Grunbaum state the two main aims of the collection as being, first, to demonstrate that self-consciousness is a complex phenomenon requiring an interdisciplinary approach and, second, to argue for the existence of a kind of self-consciousness which is primitive, implicit, pre-reflective and bodily. In this review I will first give a summary of each of the articles in the collection, and then give an evaluation of it with these two aims in mind.
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