This essay provides a short overview, written for an interdisciplinary volume, of a theme I’ve pursued in previous work. A number of influential schools of thought converge on the view that human beings are self-creating. This constructive view of the self presents our normative systems, primarily those of morality and law, with an additional task: not only to guide us in what to do but also to shape who we are. Consequently, when devising behavior-guiding norms we must ask: what subjects will emerge from the practices and activities generated by a particular set of norms? And what considerations bear on the construction of selves through our normative engagements? I sketch some preliminary steps toward exploring this largely uncharted ter...
I propose to engage in a survey and critical evaluation of various fundamental understandings of sel...
The literature on possible selves has grown significantly since the development of the construct in ...
By telling us who we are as well as how to think and act, our self-definitions regulate interpersona...
AbsTrAcT. classic research and contemporary scholarship suggest that the self cannot be understood a...
Many have convincingly argued that the self, rather than an acultural, essentialist entity, is local...
The self is conceptualized in a multitude of ways in different scholarly fields; at the same time mo...
This article evaluates the view that the self is social constructed. It explains that a social const...
In this thesis, I present a view according to which folk psychology is not only used for predictive ...
This dissertation is about the concept of self, specifically I seek to answer the question of what c...
We propose a review of the formation of the Self from a phenomenological-contextual perspective. Thi...
The study of culture and self casts psychology’s understanding of the self, identity, or agency as c...
This article addresses the question of the individual self under conditions of increased insecurity ...
The thesis concerns moral motivation and how one can determine the difference between morality and n...
This essay examines the interrelationship between ethics, aesthetics, skill, and self-knowledge.\ud ...
The primary task of this thesis is to explain what the relationship between social practice and the ...
I propose to engage in a survey and critical evaluation of various fundamental understandings of sel...
The literature on possible selves has grown significantly since the development of the construct in ...
By telling us who we are as well as how to think and act, our self-definitions regulate interpersona...
AbsTrAcT. classic research and contemporary scholarship suggest that the self cannot be understood a...
Many have convincingly argued that the self, rather than an acultural, essentialist entity, is local...
The self is conceptualized in a multitude of ways in different scholarly fields; at the same time mo...
This article evaluates the view that the self is social constructed. It explains that a social const...
In this thesis, I present a view according to which folk psychology is not only used for predictive ...
This dissertation is about the concept of self, specifically I seek to answer the question of what c...
We propose a review of the formation of the Self from a phenomenological-contextual perspective. Thi...
The study of culture and self casts psychology’s understanding of the self, identity, or agency as c...
This article addresses the question of the individual self under conditions of increased insecurity ...
The thesis concerns moral motivation and how one can determine the difference between morality and n...
This essay examines the interrelationship between ethics, aesthetics, skill, and self-knowledge.\ud ...
The primary task of this thesis is to explain what the relationship between social practice and the ...
I propose to engage in a survey and critical evaluation of various fundamental understandings of sel...
The literature on possible selves has grown significantly since the development of the construct in ...
By telling us who we are as well as how to think and act, our self-definitions regulate interpersona...