The subject of the self has been around, arguably, since people first began to systematize their thinking about world and themselves, though it never studied as systematically in last fourteen centuries. That is say, after foundations institutional learning scientific investigation had laid Islamicate world, more or less form we take for granted today. In this thoughtful deeply knowledgeable st...

Abstract The article takes issue with the proposal that dominant accounts of collective intentionality suffer from an individualist bias and one should instead reverse order explanation give primacy to we community. It discusses different versions community first view argues they fail because operate too simplistic a conception what it means be self misunderstand (part of) we. In presenting thi...

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES We implemented a 12-week drama-based educational intervention to introduce to dementia practitioners person-centred care that emphasizes the notion of embodied selfhood (defined as non-verbal self-expression). BACKGROUND Person-centred dementia care guidelines emphasize the assessment of individual needs, and where appropriate, the use of non-pharmacological interventions ...

We hypothesize that linguistic (dis-)organization in the schizophrenic brain plays a more central role in the pathogenesis of this disease than commonly supposed. Against the standard view, that schizophrenia is a disturbance of thought or selfhood, we argue that the origins of the relevant forms of thought and selfhood at least partially depend on language. The view that they do not is premise...