Natural belief in persistent selves

Psychological aspects of natural language. use: our words, our selves.

The words people use in their daily lives can reveal important aspects of their social and psychological worlds. With advances in computer technology, text analysis allows researchers to reliably and quickly assess features of what people say as well as subtleties in their linguistic styles. Following a brief review of several text analysis programs, we summarize some of the evidence that links...

Possible Selves

The concept of possible selves is introduced to complement current conceptions of self-knowledge. Possible selves represent individuals' ideas of what they might become, what they would like to become, and what they are afraid of becoming, and thus provide a conceptual link between cognition and motivation. Possible selves are the cognitive components of hopes, fears, goals, and threats, and th...

Natural deduction for belief at most

We present a new approach to the logic of at most, introducing the notion of parametric propositions to modal natural deduction proofs. We apply the method with a natural deduction formulation of the doxastic logic N, a new system in the “only knowing” family. Using parametric proof rules, we give introduction and elimination rules for belief at most that directly match the natural second-order...

True Selves, False Selves, and the Ambiguity of Authenticity

Belief and awareness: reflections on a case of persistent anosognosia.

Persisting anosognosia after acute lesions is relatively rare, and no case studies to date have reported functional scanning investigation of this disorder. This is a case report of an 85-year-old right-handed Scottish woman, EN, who showed persistent anosognosia for hemiplegia following a haemorrhagic stroke. Extensive damage in the right hemisphere caused left upper and lower limb flaccid hem...