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Muzio, Isabella. "Consciousness, self-consciousness, and introspective self-knowledge." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2005. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1445604/.
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We are, it seems, able to know a wide range of our own thoughts, beliefs, desires and emotions in a special immediate, authoritative way in which we are not able to know the mental states of others, nor indeed a certain range of our own such states. How is this possible What is this special way we have of knowing a certain class of our own mental states What, in fact, is the class of states of which we are able to have such knowledge, and, what is it about this class that enables us to know them in such a distinctive, authoritative way The broad aim of this thesis is to bring out, in answering these questions, an important point of intersection between issues about world-directed consciousness, self-consciousness and introspective self-knowledge. More specifically, starting from the problem of authoritative self-knowledge, the aim of the thesis is threefold: to motivate, to articulate, and to expand upon a particular Sartrian solution to this problem, based on a view of our world-directed conscious states as being in some sense at the same time states of implicit or 'pre- reflective' self-consciousness. In accordance with this threefold aim, the thesis divides into three parts as follows: Part I begins with the problem of authoritative self-knowledge and the standard solutions on offer in the literature: inferential models, perceptual models, and constitutive accounts. It then suggests how a close examination of the shortcomings of these standard approaches ultimately points towards a solution along the above Sartrian lines, ie. based on an understanding of first-order consciousness as involving already itself an implicit form of self-consciousness. Part II then focuses more narrowly on this notion of implicit self- consciousness, proceeding (a) to distinguish it first from other similar-sounding notions in the literature (ie. notions of 'non-conceptual' self-consciousness, higher- order-thought conceptions of consciousness, and constitutive accounts of self- knowledge), moving on then (b) to show how the notion introduced here, contra these others, can indeed provide the basis for a solution to the initial problem of introspective self-knowledge meeting all the desiderata on a successful such theory. Finally, Part III takes on the more concrete issue of how such a form of implicit self-consciousness might, in practice, be seen to be involved in our two main categories of world-directed states, ie. in our cognitive states on the one hand (thoughts, beliefs, perceptual experiences), and in our emotions on the other (desires, fears, hopes, etc). This section of the thesis goes beyond mere concerns about the relation between an implicit form of self-consciousness and the problem of self- knowledge, drawing on both other parts of the philosophical literature and on various parts of the current psychological literature, to make not only more concrete sense of the view of world-directed consciousness here advocated, but to thereby show it to be also plausible independently from the theoretical considerations about self-knowledge initially driving it in this thesis.
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MacLean, Brian J. "Self-consciousness, self-awareness and pain." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/4617.
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Eilan, Naomi. "Self-consciousness and experience." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.303500.
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McHugh, Conor. "Self-knowledge in consciousness." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/3488.
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When you enjoy a conscious mental state or episode, you can knowledgeably self-ascribe that state or episode, and your self-ascription will have a special security and authority (as well as several other distinctive features). This thesis argues for an epistemic but nonintrospectionist account of why such self-ascriptions count as knowledge, and why they have a special status. The first part of the thesis considers what general shape an account of self-knowledge must have. Against a deflationist challenge, I argue that your judgments about your own conscious states and episodes really do constitute knowledge, and that their distinctive features must be explained by the epistemic credentials that make them knowledge. However, the most historically influential non-deflationist account—according to which such self-ascriptive judgments are based on introspective experiences of your conscious states and episodes— misconstrues the unique perspective that you have on your own conscious mind. The second part of the thesis argues that the occurrence in your consciousness of a state or episode of a certain type, with a certain content, can itself suffice for you to have a reason to judge that you are enjoying a state or episode of that type, with that content. Self-ascriptions made for such reasons will count as knowledge. An account along these lines can explain the special status of self-knowledge. In particular, I show that a self-ascription of a content, made for the reason you have in virtue of entertaining that content, will be true and rational, partly because it is an exercise of a general capacity, which I call “grasp of the first-/third-person distinction”, that is fundamental to our cognition about the world. A self-ascription of a particular type of conscious state or episode, made for the appropriate reason, will be true and rational in virtue of features distinctive of states or episodes of that type—features that contribute to determining which judgments are rational for a subject, without themselves being reasons that the subject has. I consider in detail the cases of perceptual experience and of judgment. The thesis concludes by arguing that this kind of account is well placed to explain how selfknowledge fulfills its central role in the reflective rationality that is characteristic of persons.
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Klaudat, Andre Nilo. "Kant on self-consciousness." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.299063.
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Smith, Joel Alexander. "Self-consciousness and embodied experience." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2004. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1383232/.
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The Body Claim states that a transcendental condition of self-consciousness is that one experience oneself as embodied. The contention of this thesis is that popular arguments in support of the Body Claim are unconvincing. Understanding the Body Claim requires us to have a clear understanding of both self-consciousness and embodied experience. In the first chapter I lay out two different conceptions of selfconsciousness, arguing that the proponent of the Body Claim should think of selfconsciousness as first-person thought. I point out that since arguments for the Body Claim tend to proceed by stating putative transcendental conditions on self-reference, the proponent of the Body Claim must maintain that there is a conceptual connection between self-consciousness and self-reference. In the second chapter I argue against views, originating from Wittgenstein and Anscombe, which reject this connection between self-consciousness and self-reference. In chapter three I show that a well known principle governing the ascription of content, that which Evans calls `Russell's Principle', occupies an ambiguous position with regards to the Body Claim. I argue that Russell's Principle should be rejected. Chapter four distinguishes between two conceptions of embodied experience: bodily-awareness and bodily self-awareness. I argue that there is no such thing as bodily self-awareness and so it cannot be a transcendental condition of self-consciousness. Chapter five looks at, and finds wanting, arguments for the Body Claim that can be found in the work of Strawson. Chapter six argues that it is a transcendental condition of self-consciousness that one enjoy spatial experience. Chapters seven and eight assess two influential arguments that attempt to complete a defence of the Body Claim: the solidity argument and the action argument. I argue that neither argument is convincing. Although the conclusions are primarily negative, much is learned along the way about the nature of both self-consciousness and embodied experience.
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Choi, Yoon Hee. "Kant's theory of self-consciousness." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.607673.
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Clarke, James. "Self-Consciousness: a novel story." Master's thesis, Faculty of Humanities, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/32690.
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This document is the result of work probably better suited to a psychologist than a literary scholar, so I make my apologies in advance if what follows seems at times inappropriately confessional, but I'm afraid that my interest in the subject is less academic than it is personal. Though it was never included as part of his academic work, the attached typescript for a graphic novel, Kariba, is the work of James C—, for a time one of my most promising students. Under my supervision for the MA within the Department of Language and Communication, he was engaged in writing a novel (the traditional kind, sans illustrations) of which, tragically, only fragments remain. James took his own life in late 2019 after a long struggle with depression. As his supervisor, I saw first-hand the progress of this terrible disease. Despite the encouragement I gave, James suffered from a lack of self-belief that many will recognise as symptomatic of our age—in which the good lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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Vuillaume, Laurène. "Beliefs, Bodily-Self and Consciousness." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/287600.
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My thesis explores the interplay between perceptual awareness, metacognition and metarepresentations using various experimental manipulations. It is articulated around two approaches.
The first part of my thesis seeks to better understand how perceptual awareness and metacognition are modulated by experimentally-induced metarepresentations in two studies based on beliefs manipulation. We use placebo suggestions aiming at improving perceptual awareness at different levels of processing in a first set of visual experiments and we study the impact of a negative placebo suggestion impact on perceptual awareness and metacognitive abilities in a second set of tactile experiments. Ours results suggest that placebo suggestions lead to fragile if not non-existent effects in non-noxious perception and that high-level cognitive-affective components may be essential for placebo effect to occur. The second part is focused on the relationship between perceptual consciousness and a core metarepresentation that is the self. In particular, it aims at deepening our understanding of whether bodily self-consciousness has a role in shaping perceptual consciousness. This fundamental relation has indeed surprisingly remained overlooked so far, perceptual- and bodily self- consciousness being largely studied independently. This second part is composed of 3 studies. The first one examines how body movement can influence vision and metacognition through sensory attenuation. The second study investigates how manipulating one’s sense of self through sensorimotor conflicts alters perception and metacognition. The third study explores whether self-metacognition requires embodiment and to which extent one can evaluate the (un)certainty of others. Taken together, our findings suggest that the brain — and consciousness — cannot be studied in isolation, and that it is essential to take into account our body and our actions into the world, as well as the fact that we live in a social environment in order to have a deeper understanding of perceptual consciousness.Doctorat en Sciences psychologiques et de l'éducation
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Luhtanen, Riia Kaarina. "Private Self-Consciousness, Self-Esteem, and Perspective-Taking." W&M ScholarWorks, 1986. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625371.
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Ross, David Francis. "Self-awareness, self-consciousness and the self-control of drunken comportment." Thesis, McGill University, 1987. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=75338.
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The influence of a primarily Public form of self-awareness and of Private and Public Self-Consciousness on drunken physical aggression and complex reaction-time were examined. Two forms of the balanced-placebo design were employed. Results indicated that each form of self-focus played a significant role in the determination of various aspects of drunken comportment. Consumption of alcohol did not eliminate self-aware behavior on the measures employed. Public Self-Consciousness acted to increase drunken impairment. A modified form of the balanced-placebo design proved superior to the standard version for use with moderately high doses (1.32 ml/kg) of alcohol on a measure of subjective intoxication. The implications for the literature on self-focus and drunken comportment are discussed.
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Fricke, Martin F. "A phenomenological theory of self consciousness." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.248895.
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Shepherd, David. "Beyond metafiction : self-consciousness in Soviet literature /." Oxford [GB] : Clarendon press, 1992. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb35688877g.
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Vosgerau, Gottfried. "Mental representation and self-consciousness from basic self-representation to self-related cognition." Paderborn Mentis, 2007. http://d-nb.info/99282558X/04.
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Vosgerau, Gottfried. "Mental representation and self-consciousness : from basic self-representation to self-related cognition /." Paderborn : Mentis, 2009. http://d-nb.info/99282558X/04.
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Wojslawowicz, Julie Catherine. "Public and private self-consciousness during early adolescence." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/2494.
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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2005.Thesis research directed by: Human Development. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Russell, Bryan T. "Consciousness, Self-Control, and Free Will in Nietzsche." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2011. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/philosophy_theses/102.
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Brian Leiter is one of the few Nietzsche interpreters who argue that Nietzsche rejects all forms of free will. Leiter argues that Nietzsche is an incompatibilist and rejects libertarian free will. He further argues that since Nietzsche is an epiphenomenalist about conscious willing, his philosophy of action cannot support any conception of free will. Leiter also offers deflationary readings of those passages where Nietzsche seemingly ascribes free will to historical figures or types. In this paper I argue against all of these conclusions. In the first section I show that, on the most charitable interpretation, Nietzsche is not an epiphenomenalist. In the second section I trace Nietzsche’s alleged incompatibilism through three of his works and offer reasons to be skeptical of the claim that Nietzsche was a committed incompatibilist. Finally, I argue that Nietzsche is not being sarcastic or unacceptably revisionary when he makes positive ascriptions of free will.
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Vice, Susan. "Self-consciousness in the work of Malcolm Lowry." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.235780.
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Preston, Mary Elizabeth. "Homodiegetic narration: Reliability, self-consciousness, ideology, and ethics /." The Ohio State University, 1997. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu148794532075803.
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Caglayan, Mulazim Oznur. "The Role Of Gender, Self-esteem, Self-consciousness, And Social Self-efficacy On Adolescent Shyness." Master's thesis, METU, 2012. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12615062/index.pdf.
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This study investigated the relationship between gender, self-esteem, self-consciousness, social self-efficacy and shyness among 9th, 10th, and 11th grade school students. Participants of the study were 424 high school students (250 female and 174 male) from four high schools in Bursa. Demographic information form, Revised Cheek and Buss Shyness Scale (RCBS) (Cheek &Buss, 1981), Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES) (Rosenberg, 1965), Self-Consciousness Scale (SCS) (Feningstein, Scheier, &
Buss, 1975), and Social Self-Efficacy Scale (Matsushima &
Shiomi, 2002) were used as data collection instruments. The results of multiple regression analysis indicated that self-esteem, self-consciousness, and social self-efficacy were significant predictors of high school students
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Kennard, Luke Nicholas. "The expanse : self-consciousness and the transatlantic prose poem." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10036/49653.
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This work consists of a portfolio of creative work in the form of verse and prose poems, The Dusty Era, preceded by a thesis, ‘The Expanse: Self-Consciousness and the Transatlantic Prose Poem’, arguing for a serious analysis of humour within the form of prose poetry. Chapter 1 introduces the form of prose poetry and the idea of self-consciousness as methodology through the book-length prose poem In Parenthesis (1937) by David Jones. Chapter 2 concerns Seamus Heaney’s Stations and Geoffrey Hill’s Mercian Hymns, two prose poem sequences from the early 70s, both of which cite In Parenthesis as their primary influence. The works are discussed in terms of their reactions to Jones, arguing that they largely excise self-consciousness in favour of poetic self-mythology and aggrandisement, whereby the events of a poet’s life are elevated to the significance of historical events. The chapter concludes by looking at Heaney’s recent return to the form in his 2006 collection District and Circle. In Chapter 3 John Ashbery’s Three Poems is read alongside Samuel Beckett’s novel The Unnamable and through Martin Heidegger’s The Question Concerning Technology. Antecedents are sought in the prose poetry of Baudelaire and Kafka and the parallel themes of judgement and Christian imagery are traced through Three Poems and W. H. Auden’s The Orators. In Chapter 4 the process poetry of The Orators leads to the identification of a hybrid form, the poem-as-essay (or essay-as-poem), analysed through the work of Canadian poet Anne Carson, whose prose poetry simultaneously complements and subverts her research as a classicist. Chapter 5 concerns the English poet John Ash, in particular his technique of inverting his standard poetic voice within his travelogue prose poems. This is traced back to Bashō’s 16th century travelogues, as self-conscious and self-referential as anything which is today classed as postmodern. In conclusion the thesis assesses the work of Lee Harwood as a poet who encapsulates the central arguments of self-consciousness, humour and transatlanticism within his prose poetry while remaining stylistically unaffiliated with a specific movement.
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Sobiesuo, Andrew Mwinvuure. "Textual self-consciousness and discourse in Luis Goytisolo's Antagonia /." The Ohio State University, 1990. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487681788252317.
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Doty, Mary E. "Self-Consciousness and Body Image Issues Among College Females." DigitalCommons@USU, 1990. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/5979.
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This study examined some of the procedures used in eating disorder research. Body size estimation procedures, in light of their similarity to procedures in social psychology, were used to create self-focus and selfconsciousness conditions. If the procedures in the present study create self-consciousness effects, it is possible that the results of those studies have been affected by a heightened state of self-awareness. The present research also explored the relationships between self-consciousness, self-esteem, body esteem, body perception, and eating disorder proneness. The research was conducted with a nonclinical sample from a university population, controlling for age and body development factors. Baseline and experimental measures of objective self-awareness and body size perception were taken. The experimental conditions consisted of the presence of a) a VCR and mirror and b) an observer who was rating the subject. The third condition was a control setting that replicated the baseline setting. The sample was also tested at the posttest for self-esteem, body esteem, and eating disorder proneness. The results indicate that the subjects reported no significant changes in self-consciousness or body size estimates, suggesting that something besides the presence of equipment influences whether or not one feels selfconscious. This idea has been borne out in other research that implicates self-esteem as a major consideration in whether or not an individual feels self-conscious in certain situations (that is, that low self-esteem appears to increase one's amenability to induce self-consciousness). Another primary factor is that self-consciousness cannot be induced when the individual is interested in the task. Subjects in the present study indicated that they found the tasks inherently interesting and forgot about the presence of equipment and observers once they began thinking about the questions posed to them. In the present research, selfesteem and body esteem were both found to be negatively related to self-consciousness, while eating disorder proneness was found to be positively related to selfconsciousness. The results are discussed in light of these connections, and suggestions for future research are provided.
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Hamilton, Andrew J. "The self and self-conciousness." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/2704.
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It is the aim of this thesis to consider two accounts of 1st-person utterances that are often mistakenly conflated - viz. that involving the 'no-reference' view of "I", and that of the non-assertoric thesis of avowals. The first account says that in a large range of (roughly) 'psychological' uses, 'I' is not a referring expression; the second, that avowals of 1st-personal 'immediate' experience are primarily 'expressive' and not genuine assertions. The two views are expressions of what I term 'Trojanism'. This viewpoint constitutes one side of a 'Homeric Opposition in the Metaphysics of Experience', and has been endorsed by Wittgenstein throughout his writings; it has received recent expression in Professor Anscombe's article 'The First Person'. I explore the ideas of these writers in some depth, and consider to what extent they stand up to criticism by such notable 'Greek' contenders as P.F. Strawson and Gareth Evans. I first give neutral accounts of the key-concepts on which subsequent arguments are based. These are the immunity to error through misidentification (IEM) of certain 1st-person utterances, the guaranteed reference of 'I', avowal, and the Generality Constraint. I consider the close relation of Trojanism to solipsism and behaviourism, and then assess the effectiveness of two arguments for that viewpoint - Anscombe's Tank Argument and the argument from IEM. Though each is appealing, neither is decisive; to assess Trojanism properly we need to look at the non-assertoric thesis of avowals, which alone affords the prospect of a resolution of the really intractable problems of the self generated by Cartesianism. In the course of the latter assessment I consider the different varieties of avowal, broadening the discussion beyond the over-used example 'I am in pain'. I explore Wittgenstein's notion of 'expression', and discuss how this notion may help to explain the authority a subject possesses on his mental states as expressed in avowals. My conclusion is that an expressive account of avowals can provide a satisfactory counter to the Cartesian account of authority without our needing recourse to a non-assertoric or even to a non- cognitive thesis. Discussion of self-consciousness is implicit in discussion of the Homeric Opposition, but there is in addition a short chapter on the concept itself.
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Booth, Nancy Davis 1951. "The relationship between height and self-esteem, and the mediating effects of self-consciousness." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/276889.
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This study was designed to investigate the relationship between height and self-esteem, and to examine the mediating effects of self-consciousness. Four hundred and seventy-nine college students, 143 males and 336 females, 75% under the age of 21, were administered The Personal Opinion Survey which consisted of demographic information, the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, and Elkind and Bowen's Imaginary Audience Scale. Findings revealed a nonlinear relationship between height and self-esteem. Further, self-consciousness emerged as a significant mediator of the relationship between height and self-esteem, accounting for the difference in male and female self-esteem scores. Moreover, the influence of self-consciousness on the height and self-esteem relationship was revealed greatest for females.
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Sebastián, González Miguel Ángel. "Self-Involving Representationalism (SIR): A naturalistic Theory of Phenomenal Consciousness." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/32012.
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A naturalistic account of phenomenal consciousness is presented: Self-Involving Representationalism.
The first step for the project of naturalizing phenomenal consciousness is to make the project itself feasible. The purpose of the fi rst part of this work is to provide a suitable answer to some arguments presented against this enterprise. I discuss the classical modal and knowledge argument and defend the phenomenal concept strategy against objection by Tye and Chalmers. I also consider some arguments from vagueness against the project.
In the second part I will develop the pillars of the theory. In order to make compatible the intuition that phenomenal properties are intrinsic properties of the subject and explain cases of shifted spectrum I appeal following Shoemaker to appearance properties and I follow Egan in the characterization of this properties.
According to Self-Involving Representationalism, phenomenally conscious mental states are states that represent a speci c kind of de se content. I argue that in having an experience I do not merely attribute certain properties to the object causing the experience, I attribute to myself being presented with an object with these properties. This content can be naturalized in rst-order terms by appealing to a certain sense of self: the sense of a bounded, living organism adapting to the environment to maintain life and the processes underlying the monitoring of the activity within these bounds.
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Small, Keith Edward. "Jesus' self-consciousness as a prophet a Biblical/Quranic comparison /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1988. http://www.tren.com.
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Dugdale, J. "Allusiveness and self-consciousness in the fiction of Thomas Pynchon." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.233900.
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This dissertation is concerned with the works written by the American novelist Thomas Pynchon while he was in his twenties. As such it deals with some of the short stories he produced as a student at Cornell, and with his first two novels, V. and The Crying of Lot 49. It excludes his longest and probably greatest novel, Gravity's Rainbow, partly because the earlier work deserves more attention than it has received, partly because it is difficult to confine a discussion of a text of such size and complexity to a single chapter. The Introduction is an exposition of the method of the dissertation, which draws on a distinction between the 'first story' or narrative level of the texts, and the 'second story', a latent structure concealed beneath the surface. Motives, techniques and problems involved in the construction of such latent structures are discussed, and brief examples are given. Ch. 1 is a close reading of three short stories, rather than a comprehensive account of Pynchon's career as a short story writer. It considers in turn Mortality and Mercy in Vienna, Low-lands and Entropy, all three set in Washington or New York in the late 1950s. In each case analysis reveals levels of meaning - artistic, political, psychological - which the anecdotal and apparently casual quality of the writing would not lead one to suspect. Ch. 2, devoted to V., is concerned entirely with eliciting information from the subtext of the novel on the position it assigns to itself in literary tradition. The chapter consists of two sections, the first listing the more obvious allusions to 20th century literature in the foreign half of V.; the second inferring a critique of Modernism from these allusions. Ch. 3 opens with a reading of the 'first story' of The Crying of Lot 49 which detects subtle indications in the text of negligence on the part of the heroine, Oedipa Maas. This reading then becomes the basis of an analysis of the 'second story' which suggests a concordance between the text's implicit conception of literary history and its political vision.
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Wiseman, Rachael Katherine. "Speaking of oneself : Self-consciousness and the first-person prounoun." Thesis, University of York, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.533471.
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Howarth, P. "Ecstasy, impersonality and self-consciousness in British poetry 1910-1916." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.604276.
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T.S. Eliot's seminal essay, 'Tradition and the Individual Talent', is usually taken as the starting point for the modernist belief in poetic impersonality. An earlier unpublished essay by Edward Thomas on Ecstasy, however, shows how he and other non-Modernist poets were also interested in a poetry where the author 'has stepped out of self'. Although his circle (the 'Georgians') has largely been ignored by critical histories, close examination of their magazines and anthologies shows identical aims of ecstatic directness and the elimination of rhetoric to Pound's group. Despite Eliot and Pound's denials, modernist notions of the 'Image' and 'tradition' are shown to be taken from the same Wordsworth who inspired Georgian poetry. Both Georgians and Imagists attempt to renew Lyrical Ballads with a poetry so direct it would by-pass rhetoric, but in fact fall prey to a self-consciousness which is anything but impersonal. Some Georgians were more successful, however. Walter de la Mare sought the anonymous through his childs-eye verses, W.H. Davies achieved a personal inscrutability through his simple poetry's avowal of mutually incompatible perspectives. Thomas Hardy was an inspiration of much Georgian verse, but they were unsympathetic to the self-consciousness of his melancholic Trauerspiel, vaunting his helplessness by conspicuous labour. Rupert Brooke constantly strove for instant, Imagistically ecstatic poetry, but was undone by an unsleeping self-awareness that came as much from his philosophy of art as his legendary good looks. The final chapter shows how the indirectness and ambiguity of Thomas's verses are part of his poetics of ecstasy, his attempt to evade self-consciousness and become part of the anti-personal community of the countryside.
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Lee, Charlotte Louise. "Self-consciousness in the works of the very late Goethe." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.610832.
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Lilly, Debra L. "Anger expression and blood pressure : the influence of self- consciousness." Virtual Press, 1992. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/862263.
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The validity of the Self-Consciousness Scale (SCS) for use with adolescents was investigated. Also, a path model of blood pressure based on the cognitive social learning theory was tested using sets of biological (i.e., family history of hypertension and age), psychological (i.e., public self-consciousness, private self-consciousness, suppressed anger and outwardly expressed anger), and lifestyle (i.e., relative weight and smoking) variables.Subjects were 169 female and 124 male adolescents from the southeastern United States. Parents provided information about the subjects' family history of hypertension and health. Subjects completed the SCS and Anger Expression Scale and a health questionnaire. Subjects' blood pressures, weights, and heights were assessed. Data from all subjects were used for the SCS analyses. Data from 36 subjects who reportedly had health problems or used drugs with cardiovascular effects were excluded from the path model analyses.The SCS data were factor analyzed. Based on the initial analysis, four items were excluded from the data. The subsequent factor analysis suggested that the SCS is a valid measure of the dimensions of self-consciousness in adolescents. Test-retest reliabilities and internal consistencies of the SCS showed reasonable reliability. Comparisons of the SCS scores between college students and adolescents and between female and male adolescents were made.The path model was tested separately for males and females on both systolic blood pressure (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP), using hierarchical multiple regression analyses of sets. Although the variables collectively explained a significant amount of variance in DBP and SBP for both sexes, few had significant direct and total effects on DBP and SBP, and none had indirect effects on DBP or SBP. Sex differences emerged in the variables' effects on DBP and SBP and the variables' effects on other variables. DBP and SBP increased as relative weight increased for both sexes. No other variables influenced SBP or DBP for males or SBP for females. Females with a positive family history of hypertension had higher DBPs. Females' DBPs decreased as private self-consciousness increased. The implications of the findings and suggestions for future research are discussed.Department of Counseling Psychology and Guidance Services
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Garcia, Joseph Julio Carandang. "How private self-awareness can influence the effectiveness self-reportusing the Big-five among Chinese adolescent." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2010. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B4516924X.
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Hall, Mary Canty. "The effects of self-awareness, self-consciousness, and standards of propriety on interpersonal physical pleasuring /." The Ohio State University, 1985. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487260531954828.
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Gunay, Serkan. "The Problem Of Self-consciousness And Recognition In Hegel'." Master's thesis, METU, 2012. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12614726/index.pdf.
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The problem of self-consciousness and recognition is one of the most crucial and central issues in Hegel&rsquos Phenomenology of Spirit. The purpose of this study is to expose and investigate this problem in accordance with the unity of Phenomenology through which Hegel examines the experience of consciousness in terms of its own criterion. The emergence of self-consciousness as an explicit issue becomes the truth of movement of consciousness, and self-consciousness essentially takes the form of desire. In this process, self-consciousness evolves from the natural desire to desire for recognition, and recognition by the other arises as the condition of self-consciousness. Besides, the only form of recognition that makes the satisfaction of self-consciousness or desire possible is the reciprocal recognition. Hegel exposes consciousness&rsquo
experience of recognition as the struggle for recognition and the dialectic of master and slave. On the other hand, the process of recognition in the Phenomenology does not culminate in the master-slave dialectic or in the liberation of slave. Rather, the servile consciousness takes another shape that emerges from its contradictory nature and it changes into the freedom of thought. That is, Hegel&rsquo
s concept of recognition cannot be reduced to the master-slave dialectic
the process of recognition persists in the subsequent movement of consciousness and it evolves into certain recognitive relations in the &lsquo
Spirit&rsquo
. For this reason, the problem of self-consciousness and recognition has a determining or constitutive role through the whole movement of consciousness in the Phenomenology.
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Bell, Aaron M. "Reclaiming ethical responsibility : an urgent case for authentic, psychological work /." Connect to online version of this title in UO's Scholars' Bank, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1456288511&sid=3&Fmt=2&clientId=11238&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Tayler, Denise May. "The haunting of consciousness, Freud, Lockean identity, and the uncanny self." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/mq22880.pdf.
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Rauve, Rebecca Suzanne. "Immanent fiction : self-present consciousness in the novels of Dorothy Richardson /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9498.
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Kensky, Eitan Lev. "Facing the Limits of Fiction: Self-Consciousness in Jewish American Literature." Thesis, Harvard University, 2013. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10716.
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This thesis explores the limits of fictional language by studying the work of Jewish American writer-critics, novelists who significantly engaged with literary criticism, and critics who experimented with the novel or short fiction. These writer-critics all believed in Literature: they believed that literature could effect social change and educate the masses; or they believed in literature as an art-form, one that exposed the myths underlying American society, or that revealed something fundamental about the human condition. Yet it is because they believed so stridently in the concept of Literature that they turned to non-fiction. Writing fiction exposed problems that Literature could not resolve. They describe being haunted by “preoccupations” that they could not exhaust in fiction alone. They apologetically refer to their critical texts as “by-products” of their creative writing. Writer-critics were forced to decide what the limits of fiction were, and they adopted other types of writing to supplement these unexpected gaps in fiction's power. This dissertation contains four chapters and an introduction. The introduction establishes the methodological difficulties in writing about author-critics, and introduces a set of principles to guide the study. Chapter 1 approaches Abraham Cahan's The Rise of David Levinsky (1917). I argue that many of the novel's difficulties result from Cahan's desire to present the way that ideology shades our understanding of reality while minimizing direct narratorial intrusions. Chapter 2 studies how politics affected the work of Mike Gold, Moishe Nadir, and Isaac Bashevis Singer. In all three writers, literature emerges as a kind of ersatz-politics, a space for the dispossessed to imagine the political. In the end, the political novel only reinforces the fictionality. Chapter 3 is a study of Leslie Fiedler's problematic novel, The Second Stone. While critics have seen the novel as a kind of game, I propose reading the novel as an earnest expression of Fiedler's vision of literature as a conversation. Chapter 4 turns to Cynthia Ozick and Susan Sontag. A cumulative reading of their fiction and criticism shows the deep twinning of their fiction and critical thought. For both writers true knowledge comes only through the imagination.Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
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Morris, Brian Kenneth. "Perceptions of Complexions: Consciousness and Self-Identification Among Dark-Skinned Blacks." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2009. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/959.
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Skin tone variation within American black communities has long been associated with intraracial stratification. Data from the National Survey of Black Americans (NSBA) indicate that lighter-skinned blacks – net of such factors as region of residence, age, and sex – consistently have higher levels of nearly every socioeconomic indicator including educational attainment, personal and family income, and perceived physical attractiveness when compared to their darker counterparts. What does this color caste system mean for the personal identities and emotional experiences of dark-skinned blacks in America? Using data from the NSBA and six interviews with dark-skinned blacks, I set forth social psychological implications of a phenotypically stratified subgroup in the United States.
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Mnozhynska, R. V. "Evolution of ethnic self-consciousness in the heritage of Ukrainian humanists." Thesis, Громадська організація "Львівська фундація суспільних наук", 2021. https://er.knutd.edu.ua/handle/123456789/18542.
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Янковская, В. В., Д. С. Дорош, Володимир Олександрович Бойко, Владимир Александрович Бойко, Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Boiko, Аркадій Володимирович Кустов, Аркадий Владимирович Кустов, and Arkadii Volodymyrovych Kustov. "Особенности самосознания у лиц молодого возраста." Thesis, Издательство СумГУ, 2009. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/5062.
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Lenk, Sonja. "By being human : an anthropological inquiry into the dimension and potential of consciousness in the context of spiritual practice." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/960.
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The research explores the concept of human consciousness and its being experienced in a particular social context, focusing on consciousness’s ‘highest potential’ as described in both ancient Buddhist Philosophy and more recent spiritual teachings. The main attention is on the individual’s emotional and mental experience of ‘conventional’ and ‘ultimate’ reality as taught by these traditions and the possible transformation of consciousness they might initiate. Two years of fieldwork was carried out at the Barbara Brennan School of Healing, which is a spiritual educational institution, offering a four-year training to become a healer. The School emphasis is on the human individual and his or her inherent existential power to transform and transcend limitations or delusions, focusing on the process of self- transformation. Being human in the eyes of the School is seen as an endless potential for growth, creativity, the capacity to love, and about learning to become fully responsible for one’s own life and happiness. The thesis explores the effect that this particular understanding of human potential has in the quotidian existence of the trainee and her or his social relations. Methodologically the study is based in phenomenological anthropology. This approach here implies that life cannot be understood through the conceptual or systematic study of its outward forms. Therefore it places conscious experience at the centre of its investigation, rather than disengaged objectivity. By employing the first-person perspective and undertaking part of the training myself, I hope to do justice to the inherently subjective dimension of consciousness and to gain as deep an understanding as possible of the processes of its transformation. The thesis thus includes subjective personal experience as primary data, and understands being objective in the sense of being open and without bias to both internal and external experience, giving the ‘perennial wisdom’ of spiritual traditions the same status as approved scientific laws.
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Pang, Kam-yiu S., and n/a. "A partitioned narrative model of the self : its linguistic manifestations, entailments, and ramifications." University of Otago. Department of English, 2006. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20070213.103815.
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Contrary to common folk and expert theory, the human self is not unitary. There is no Cartesian theatre or homunculus functioning as a metaphorical overlord. Rather, it is an abstractum gleaned from a person�s experiences-a centre of narrative gravity (Dennett 1991). Experiences are a person�s cognisance of her ventures in life from a particular unique perspective. In perspectivising her experiences, the person imputes a certain structure, order, and significance to them. Events are seen as unfolding in a certain inherently and internally coherent way characterised by causality, temporality, or intentionality, etc. In other words, a person�s self emerges out of her innumerable narrativisations of experience, as well as the different protagonist roles she plays in them. Her behaviours in different situations can be understood as different life-narratives being foregrounded, when she is faced with different stimuli different experiences/events present.
In real life, self-reflective discourse frequently alludes to a divided, partitive self, and the experiences/behaviours that it can engage in. In academic study, this concept of the divided and narrative-constructivist self is well-represented in disciplines ranging from philosophy (e.g., Dennett 1991, 2005), developmental psychology (e.g., Markus & Nurius 1986; Bruner 1990, 2001; Stern 1994), cognitive psychology (e.g., Hermans & Kempen 1993; Hermans 2002), neuropsychology (e.g. Damasio 1999), psychiatry (e.g., Feinberg 2001), to linguistics (e.g., McNeil 1996; Ochs & Capps 1996; Nair 2003). Depending on the particular theory, however, emphasis is often placed either on its divided or its narrative-constructivist nature. This thesis argues, however, that the two are coexistent and interdependent, and both are essential to the self�s ontology. Its objectives are therefore: (i) to propose a partitioned-narrative model of the self which unifies the two perspectives by positing that the partitioned-representational (Dinsmore 1991) nature of narratives entails the partitioned structure of the self; and (ii) to propose that the partitioned-narrative ontology of the self is what enables and motivates much of our self-reflective discourse and the grammatical resources for constructing that discourse. Partitioning guarantees that a part of the self, i.e., one of its narratives, can be selectively attended to, foregrounded, objectified, and hence talked about. Narrativity provides the contextual guidance and constraints for meaning-construction in such discourse. This claim is substantiated with three application cases: the use of anaphoric reflexives (I found myself smiling); various usages of proper names, including eponyms (the Shakespeare of architecture), eponymic denominal adjectives (a Herculean effort), etc.; and partitive-self constructions which explicitly profile partitioned and selectively focal narratives (That�s his hormones talking). When analysed using the proposed model, these apparently disparate behaviours turn out to share a common basis: the partitioned-narrative self.
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Nordlund, Matthew. "The effects of priming on personality self-reports challenges and opportunities /." Akron, OH : University of Akron, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=akron1240857337.
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Dissertation (Ph. D.)--University of Akron, Dept. of Psychology-Industrial/Organizational, 2009."May, 2009." Title from electronic dissertation title page (viewed 11/27/2009) Advisor, Andrea Snell; Committee members, Robert Lord, Aaron Schmidt, James Diefendorff, Matthew Lee; Department Chair, Paul Levy; Dean of the College, Chand Midha; Dean of the Graduate School, George R. Newkome. Includes bibliographical references.
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Park, Jae Ok. "Clothing style preference of working women related to self- image/clothing-image congruity and public self-consciousness." Diss., This resource online, 1990. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-07282008-140007/.
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Dent, Alexandra. "Self-consciousness, psychological distress, coping and negative cognitions in irritable bowel syndrome." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/31331.
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Objectives. To investigate differences between Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), Inflammatory Bowel Disorder (IBD) patients and controls on measures of self-consciousness, psychological distress, coping in stressful situations and negative bowel cognitions. Relationships between these measures in the IBS group were also examined. Design. Cross-sectional between-groups design. Method. IBS and IBD patients were recruited from a gastroenterology clinic. Thirty-three IBS patients, and 35 IBD patients and 35 controls completed the Self-Consciousness Scale (SCS), Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations (CISS) and Cognitive Scale for Functional Bowel Disorders (CSFBD). Results. IBS patients were significantly more anxious and had greater negative bowel cognitions than controls. There were no significant differences between IBS and IBD patients on any of the measures. There were several significant positive relationships between the four measures in the IBS group. For example, private self-consciousness (on the SCS) was related to all negative bowel cognitions on the CSFBD (except for disease conviction), anxiety and depression (on the HADS) and emotion- and task-focused coping (on the CISS). Coping (social diversion, emotion- and task-focused) was also related with various negative bowel cognitions. Finally, when IBS patients were subdivided into anxious and non-anxious groups, anxious IBS patients used significantly greater emotion-focused coping and had greater worries in relation to embarrassment/shame, anger/frustration, social approval and self-nurturance. The results are discussed in relation to previous literature and the Self-Regulatory Executive Functioning model. An alternative model based on the findings is also proposed. Conclusion. IBS patients who are psychologically distressed may benefit from psychological intervention that consists of cognitive and attentional training.
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Bradley, Darin Colbert Ross John Robert. "The little weird self and consciousness in contemporary, small-press, speculative fiction /." [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2007. http://digital.library.unt.edu/permalink/meta-dc-3703.
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Bradley, Darin Colbert. "The Little Weird: Self and Consciousness in Contemporary, Small-press, Speculative Fiction." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2007. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc3703/.
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This dissertation explores how contemporary, small-press, speculative fiction deviates from other genres in depicting the processes of consciousness in narrative. I study how the confluence of contemporary cognitive theory and experimental, small-press, speculative fiction has produced a new narrative mode, one wherein literature portrays not the product of consciousness but its process instead. Unlike authors who worked previously in the stream-of-consciousness or interior monologue modes, writers in this new narrative mode (which this dissertation refers to as "the little weird") use the techniques of recursion, narratological anachrony, and Ulric Neisser's "ecological self" to avoid the constraints of textual linearity that have historically prevented other literary modes from accurately portraying the operations of "self." Extrapolating from Mieke Bal's seminal theory of narratology; Tzvetan Todorov's theory of the fantastic; Daniel C. Dennett's theories of consciousness; and the works of Darko Suvin, Robert Scholes, Jean Baudrillard, and others, I create a new mode not for classifying categories of speculative fiction, but for re-envisioning those already in use. This study, which concentrates on the work of progressive, small-press, speculative writers such as Kelly Link, Forrest Aguirre, George Saunders, Jeffrey Ford, China Miéville, and many others, explores new ideas about narrative "coherence" from the points of view of self as they are presented today by cognitive, narratological, psychological, sociological, and semiotic theories.
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Halvorsen, Beth Marie. "Humility, boldness, surrender, and tenacity a model of centered flexibility that helps pastors increase self differentiation /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2008. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p075-0076.
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