Love and selfhood: self-understanding through philosophy and cognitive neuroscience / Annemarie van Stee.
Van Stee, Annemarie, author.
2022
BF697.5.S43 V38 2022
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Title Love and selfhood: self-understanding through philosophy and cognitive neuroscience / Annemarie van Stee.
Author Van Stee, Annemarie, author.
ISBN 3031068017 (ebook)
9783031068010 (electronic bk.)
9783031068003 (hardback)
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06801-0
Publication Details Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-031-06801-0 doi
Call Number BF697.5.S43 V38 2022
Dewey Decimal Classification 158.1
Summary After years of neurohype and a neuroskeptic backlash, this book provides a systematic analysis of the contributions to self-understanding cognitive neuroscience (CNS) and philosophy can make. The stories of five people in search of self-understanding serve as touchstone throughout the book. Their identities are tied up with what they love. The book provides in-depth analyses of CNS of love and CNS of self-reflection. It critically discusses philosophers who focus on the relation between love, self-understanding and selfhood, such as Harry Frankfurt, Susan Wolf, Charles Taylor and Sren Kierkegaard. It also builds an argument about CNS contributions to self-understanding more broadly, and how different these are from philosophys contributions. The book develops conceptual review as a philosophical method for improving the validity and comparability of CNS studies. It integrates CNS insights into its philosophical view on love and selfhood where applicable. This book thus argues and exemplifies that philosophy and CNS can work together. Annemarie van Stee is lecturer in philosophy at Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series New directions in philosophy and cognitive science.
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Intro
Acknowledgments
Contents
About the Author
List of Tables
Chapter 1: Existential Self-Understanding, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Philosophy: An Introduction
References
Chapter 2: Cognitive Neuroscience of Love
Research Questions in CNS of Love
Operationalizing Love
Participants
Tasks: Stimuli, Instructions, and Control Tasks
Post-scan Questionnaires
Results: Neural Correlates of Love
Inferences About Brain Activity and Reverse Inferences About Love
Conceptual Implications: Love as a Passive Peak Experience

Selecting Participants: Love as Peak Experience, Love as Easy, Love as Difficult
Tasks: Love as a Passive Experience
Conclusions CNS of Love
References
Chapter 3: Cognitive Neuroscience of Self-Reflection
Research Questions in CNS of Self-Reflection
Operationalizing Self-reflection
Participants
Tasks: Stimuli, Instructions, and Control Tasks
Results and Discussion in CNS of Self-Reflection
Conceptual Implications: Self-Reflection as Accessing a Personality Schema
Conclusions CNS of Self-Reflection
References
Chapter 4: Philosophers of Existential Selfhood

Being a Self by Loving Others
Meaning in Life Through Loving What Is Worthy of Love
Love Structuring Selfhood
Love, Self, and Philosophy
Being a Self by Narrating One's Self
Narrative Selves Versus Existential Selves
Becoming a Self by Relating to Oneself
A Natural Science of Existential Selfhood
Philosophy's Contributions to Understanding Existential Selfhood
Interpretation in Philosophy and Cognitive Neuroscience
References
Chapter 5: Conceptual Review: Philosophy for Cognitive Neuroscience
Developing Reliable and Valid Tasks

Problems with Current Task Development
Validity Problems
The Comparability Problem
Database Building and Problems of Comparability and Validity
Conceptual Review
Setting Up an Inventory of Task Choices
Analyzing Conceptual Implications of Task Choices
Drawing Conclusions and Consequences
Conceptual Review Versus Checking for Confounds
Conceptual Review Facilitates Database Building and Neurophilosophy
Conceptual Review, Databases, and Cognitive Ontologies
Conceptual Review and Existing Neurophilosophy
Conceptual Review and Further Concepts Requiring Analysis

Improving Interpretation of Results
Toward a Reflexive Cognitive Neuroscience
References
Chapter 6: Cognitive Neuroscience's Contributions to Self-Understanding
Humans as Embrained Beings
Triangulation
Predicting Future Behavior
Making Policy About Brains: The Case of the Sleepy Teenagers
Conclusion
References
Chapter 7: Understanding Existential Self-Understanding
Existential Selfhood and What Truly Matters
Existential Selfhood and the Relations That Shape Us
Self-Understanding: Reflexivity and the Loops That We Are

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