The genesis of self-consciousness: from Darwin to Mead and Merleau-Ponty
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https://doi.org/10.13130/2239-5474/2486Keywords:
Darwin, Mead, Wright, Heidegger, Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, Selfconsciousness, Language, Phenomenology, AnimalsAbstract
Our aim is to investigate the origin of self-consciousness by means of a philosophical inquiry that takes Darwin's investigations as its starting point. We then relate this to conceptions of self-consciousness in the pragmatism of Mead and Wright in order to bring some central concepts (such as meaning, voice and intersubjectivity) into focus. We than develop them through a systematic and genealogical reconstruction with the help of some classical phenomenological positions and the philosophy of Carlo Sini.
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2012-10-29
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