@article{1386222,
      recid = {1386222},
      author = {Musholt, Kristina,},
      title = {Thinking about oneself : from nonconceptual content to the  concept of self /},
      pages = {1 online resource (xviii, 210 pages)},
      abstract = {"In this book, Kristina Musholt offers a novel theory of  self-consciousness, understood as the ability to think  about oneself. Traditionally, self-consciousness has been  central to many philosophical theories. More recently, it  has become the focus of empirical investigation in  psychology and neuroscience. Musholt draws both on  philosophical considerations and on insights from the  empirical sciences to offer a new account of  self-consciousness--the ability to think about ourselves  that is at the core of what makes us human. Examining  theories of nonconceptual content developed in recent work  in the philosophy of cognition, Musholt proposes a model  for the gradual transition from self-related information  implicit in the nonconceptual content of perception and  other forms of experience to the explicit representation of  the self in conceptual thought. A crucial part of this  model is an analysis of the relationship between  self-consciousness and intersubjectivity.  Self-consciousness and awareness of others, Musholt argues,  are two sides of the same coin. After surveying the  philosophical problem of self-consciousness, the notion of  nonconceptual content, and various proposals for the  existence of nonconceptual self-consciousness, Musholt  argues for a non-self-representationalist theory, according  to which the self is not part of the representational  content of perception and bodily awareness but part of the  mode of presentation. She distinguishes between implicitly  self-related information and explicit self-representation,  and describes the transitions from the former to the latter  as arising from a complex process of self--other  differentiation. By this account, both self-consciousness  and intersubjectivity develop in parallel"--MIT CogNet.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1386222},
}