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Self-Evaluation

Affective and Social Grounds of Intentionality

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  • Provides a novel approach in the research of self-reflection, shifting the focus from knowledge to evaluation
  • Reveals specific dependencies of self-reflection on emotional and social attitudes
  • First collection of recent philosophical work on specifically evaluative ways of self-reflection.

Part of the book series: Philosophical Studies Series (PSSP, volume 116)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Evaluative and Self-Evaluative Attitudes

  2. Evaluative and Self Evaluative Attitudes

  3. Self-Evaluation and Rationality

  4. Self-Evaluative Emotions

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About this book

The book contains contributions by leading figures in philosophy of mind and action, emotion theory, and phenomenology. As the focus of the volume is truly innovative we expect the book to sell well to both philosophers and scholars from neighboring fields such as social and cognitive science. The predominant view in analytic philosophy is that an ability for self-evaluation is constitutive for agency and intentionality. Until now, the debate is limited in two (possibly mutually related) ways: Firstly, self-evaluation is usually discussed in individual terms, and, as such, not sufficiently related to its social dimensions; secondly, self-evaluation is viewed as a matter of belief and desire, neglecting its affective and emotional aspects. The aim of the book is to fill these research lacunas and to investigate the question of how these two shortcomings of the received views are related.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Philosophisches Seminar, Universität Basel, Basel, Switzerland

    Anita Konzelmann Ziv, Hans Bernhard Schmid

  • Department of Philosophy, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA

    Keith Lehrer

About the editors

Anita Konzelmann Ziv is assistant profesoor at the department of philosophy, University of Geneva (Switzerland) and works on the project ''Self-Evaluation - A Quest for Wisdom''. She wrote on the role of confidence and probability in the theory of knowledge of Bernard Bolzano, and more recently on collective moral emotions and virtue epistemology. Anita Konzalmann Ziv is grantholder of the ''Bourse d'excellence UNIGE 2010''', awarded by the University of Geneve, and member of ''Thumos'', the Genevean research group on emotion, values and norm.

Keih Lehrer (Ph.D.,Brown), Regents Professor of Philosophy, concentrates on epistemology, free will, rational consensus and Thomas Reid. He has been a fellow of the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned societies, the John Simon Guggenhheim Foundation, the Center for Advanced Study , University of London, and the Research School, Australian National Univversity. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Research Professor of the University of Miami, and Honorary Professor and Honorary Doctor of the University of Graz, Austria.

Hans Bernhard Schmid is SNF-Professor of Philosophy at the Univversity of Basel (Switzerland). He is the author of Subject, System, Diskurs - Edmund Husserls Begriff transzendentaler Subjectivität in sozialtheoretischen Bezügen (Kluwer 2000); Wir-Intentionalität - Kritik des ontologischen Individualismus and Rekonstruction der Gemeinschaft (Alber 2005); Plurar Action: Essays in Philosophy and Social Science (Springer 2009); Moralische Integrität-Kritik eines Konstrukts (Suhrkamp 2011). Hans Bernhard Schmid has been awarded the Latsis-Prize HSG 2006 for outstanding research (Latsis Foundation Geneva and U niversity of St. Gallen). 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Self-Evaluation

  • Book Subtitle: Affective and Social Grounds of Intentionality

  • Editors: Anita Konzelmann Ziv, Keith Lehrer, Hans Bernhard Schmid

  • Series Title: Philosophical Studies Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1266-9

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Behavioral Science, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Netherlands 2011

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-1265-2Published: 29 June 2011

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3666-5Published: 02 August 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-1266-9Published: 25 June 2011

  • Series ISSN: 0921-8599

  • Series E-ISSN: 2542-8349

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 282

  • Topics: Cognitive Psychology, Philosophy of Mind, Social Sciences, general

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