Integrates central themes in epistemology and the philosophy of mindOffers a novel defense of internalism in epistemologyDevelops an original account of the epistemic significance of consciousness
In The Private Self, Arnold Modell contributes an interdisciplinary perspective in formulating a theory of the private self. A leading thinker in American psychoanalysis, Modell here studies selfhood by examining variations on the theme of the self in Freud and in the work of object relations theorists, self psychologists, and neuroscientists. Modell contends that the self is fundamentally paradoxical, in that it is at once dependent upon social affirmation and autonomous in generating itself from within. We create ourselves, he suggests, by selecting values that are endowed with private meanings.By thinking of the unconscious as a neurophysiological process, and the self as the subject and object of its own experience, Modell is able to explain how identity can persist in the flux of consciousness. He thus offers an exciting and original perspective for our understanding of the mind and the brain.
ESSAYS ON CHINESE PHILOSOPHY AND CULTUREby T'ang Chun-i1. The Development of Ideas of Spiritual Value in Chinese Philosophy2. The Individual and the World in Chinese Methodology3. Cosmologies in Chinese Philosophy4. The T'ien Ming (Heavenly Ordinance) in Pre-Ch'in China I5. The T'ien Ming (Heavenly Ordinance) in Pre-Ch'in China II6. The Spirit and Development of Neo-Confucianism7. Chang Tsai's Theory of Mind and Its Metaphysical Basis8. The Development of the Concept of Moral Mind from Wang Yang-ming to Wang Chi9. The Criticism of Wang Yang-ming's Teachings as Raised by His Contemporaries10. Liu Tsung-chou's Doctrine of Moral Mind and Practice and His Critique of Wang Yang-ming11. The Development of the Chinese Humanistic Spirit12. The Religious Spirit of Confucianism13. Chinese Attitude Toward World Religions14. On the Direction of the Development of Political Consciousness in the Chinese people in the Past One Hundred Years15. The Reconstruction of Confucianism and the Modernization
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