Kathleen Wallace
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The Network Self
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Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction to the Network Self
- Basic Thesis
- The Practical and the Metaphysical
- Origins: Relational and Temporal Self Theories
- The Basic Thesis: The Self as Network and Process
- Practical Implications
- Other Relational Self Theories
- Pragmatism
2. The Relational Process Self: The Cumulative Network Model
- Preliminaries
- The Relational Self: the Cumulative Network Model (CNM)
- Network Relationality
- Relational Self in Process: A Cumulative Whole
- Affinities
3. Identity and the Network Self
- Introduction
- Identity and Indiscernibility
- Identity over Time
- Numerical Unity and Network Preservation
- Characterization
- Practical Implications of the Cumulative Network Model of the Self
4. Fusion and Fission: Thought Experiments, Persons and Personal Identity
- Introduction
- Fusion: Brain Transplant of One Self into the Body of Another Self
- Fission, Teleporting, and Swampman
- Prudential Concern for Future Selves
- Concluding Remarks
5. First Person Perspective and Reflexive Selves
- Introduction
- Pragmatic Reflexivity
- Self As Reflexive Community
- Reflexive Communication, Preliminaries
- Relational Self as Active: Me and I
- Reflexive Activity as Interpretation
- Reflexive Activity as Reflexive Communication
- Looking Ahead: Reflexive Communication and Autonomy
6. Autonomy and the Network Self
- Introduction
- Autonomy as Self-rule
- Self-Rule: Individual and the State
- Reflexive Communication as Root of Autonomy
- Autonomy, Hierarchy, and Subjective Authority
- Autonomy, Authenticity, and Identity
- Autonomy, Social Norms, and Socialization
- Autonomy and Power
- Examples of Autonomy as Self-Governance Through Norm-Generation
- Constraints on Autonomy
- Autonomy: Contemporary Discussions
- Summing Up
7. Responsibility and the Network Self
- Introduction
- Reidentification and Agential Responsibility
- Agential Ownership
- Responsibility Ascription and Distribution in Fusion and Fission Thought Experiments
- Forward Looking Responsibility and the Incomplete Self
- The Network Self and Responsibility in Collective Contexts
- Some Objections
- Conclusion
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