The idea of the self is still a philosophical problem for psychology, neurology, and even international law borrows ideas of the self to interpret the phenomenon of national identity and develop further regulations. The ambiguity surrounding the concept of the self creates challenges for academic and formal definitions, necessitating thorough analysis in this paper. Thus, the aim was to provide the reader with a series of non-substantial and non-dualistic versions of the self. In this paper the authors tried to approach the subject (the self) from microgenetic point of view based on works of Jason W. Brown. This analysis was justified by the non-linear, non-substantial and non-dualistic paradigms growing popular in globalised world and in academic communities. In particular, it was established that European Society for Process Thought, Claremont Process Nexus, International Process Network and other societies offer series of conferences on regular basis for many years to satisfy the need in more accurate definitions of the non-substantial versions of the self. It is demonstrated that duality of the self and the world can be eliminated by consideration of the self from the process point of view, that is, as a dynamical subject-superject, not a classic subject-object relation. The results of the paper can be used by PhD students, scholars and researchers in their further advances in neurology, psychology, law, identity studies, sociology that aim to provide both theoretical and practical solutions in their areas
The self and its values as content per se in terms of microgenesis and process philosophy
Abstract
Keywords
microgenesis; creative evolution; Alfred North Whitehead; process psychology; neurology; coincidentia oppositorum
[1] Abélard, P. (2022). Historia calamitatum. Norderstedt: Hansebooks.
[2] Bergson, H. (1911). Creative evolution. New York: Henry Holt and Company.
[3] Brown, J.W., & Stenner, P. (2024). The microgenetic theory of mind and brain. Selected essays in process psychology. Routledge: New York.
[4] Brown, J.W. (2002). The self-embodying mind. Process, brain dynamics and the conscious present. Barrytown: Station Hill Press.
[5] Brown, J.W. (2017). Reflections on mind and the image of reality. Eugene: Resource Publications.
[6] Brown, J.W. (2018). Simultaneity and serial order. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 17(5-6), 7-40.
[7] Brown, J.W. (2020). Origins of subjective experience. The Journal of Mind and Behavior. Summer and Autumn, 41(3, 4), 267-276.
[8] Brown, J.W., & Zhadiaiev, D.V. (2022). From drive to value. Process Studies, 51(2), 204-220. doi: 10.5406/21543682.51.2.04.
[9] Brown, J.W. (2021). The mind/brain state. Journal of Mind and Behavior, 42(1), 1-16.
[10] Dewey, J. (1939). Theory of valuation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
[11] Gao, X., Wen, M., Sun, M., & Rossion, B. (2022). A genuine interindividual variability in number and anatomical localization of face-selective regions in the human brain. Cereb Cortex, 32(21), 4834-4856. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhab519.
[12] James, W. (1890). The principles of psychology. New York: Henry Holt and Co. doi: 10.1037/10538-000.
[13] James, W. (1912). Essays in radical empiricism. New York: Dover.
[14] Lestienne, R. (2022). A.N. Whitehead – Philosopher of time. London: World Scientific. doi: 10.1142/q0347.
[15] Lyotard, J.-F. (1979). The postmodern condition: A report on knowledge. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
[16] Origen. (2019). On first principles. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
[17] Pachalska, M. (2012). Portrait of a scholar: Jason Walter Brown. Acta Neuropsychologica, 10(1), 125-153. doi: 10.5604/17307503.995093.
[18] Pachalska, M., & MacQueen, B.D. (2005). Microgenetic theory: A new paradigm for contemporary neuropsychology and neurolinguistics. Acta Neuropsychologica, 3(3), 89-106.
[19] Seghal, M. (2016). A situated metaphysics. Empiricism and speculation in William James and Alfred North Whitehead. Göttingen: Konstanz University Press.
[20] Stenner, P. (2011). James and Whitehead: Assemblage and systematization of a deeply empiricist mosaic philosophy. European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy, 3(1), 101-130. doi: 10.4000/ejpap.874.
[21] Stenner, P. (2015). Emotion: Being moved beyond the mainstream. In I. Parker (Ed.), Handbook of critical psychology (pp. 43-51). London: Routledge.
[22] Stenner, P. (2024). A.N. Whitehead and process thought: An overview to facilitate transdisciplinary applications within social and human sciences. Human Affairs, 34(3), 325-339. doi: 10.1515/humaff-2024-0072.
[23] Stenner, P., & Andreouli, E. (2023). Revisioning psychology and deglobalisation: The case of brexit. Theory & Psychology, 33(2), 209-226. doi: 10.1177/09593543221135867.
[24] Weber, M. (1946). Science as a vocation. In H.H. Gerth & C. Wright Mills (Eds.) Essays in sociology (pp. 129-156). New York: Oxford University Press.
[25] Whitehead, A.N. (1933). Adventures of ideas. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
[26] Whitehead, A.N. (1978). Process and reality. New York: Free Press.
[27] Zhadiaiev, D. (2020). The notion of balance: Overcoming alienation from nature. In Variations on Process metaphysics european studies in process thought (pp. 160-176). Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
[28] Zhadiaiev, D. (2023). Category of “power”: Historico-philosophical aspect as a prolegomenon to idea of balance. European Science, 4(sge18-04), 78-85. doi: 10.30890/2709-2313.2023-18-04-029.