This book presents a unified account of the self, based on a network of knowledge sourced from several scientific accounts of selfhood. Beni constructs his ontological account of the self from the common structure that underpins the theoretical diversity that is manifested in rival and sometimes incompatible scientific accounts of the self and its aspects. The enterprise is inspired by recent structural realist theories in the philosophy of science, specifying the basic structure of the self, and explaining how representational, phenomenal, and social aspects of the self are embodied within this structure.

Provides a cross-disciplinary approach to the self informed by recent breakthroughs in neuroscience and theoretical biology Originates a new stream of research by projecting the flourishing theory of Structural Realism into the field of cognitive science Suggests a way of reconciling various and at times opposing scientific and philosophical theories of the field

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Majid D. Beni obtained his PhD. at Tehran, Iranian Institute of Philosophy. He wrote greater part of his dissertation when he was visiting the School of Life Science, at ASU, where he worked on the history of philosophy of science under the supervision of Rick Creath. For the past few years he taught courses on the philosophy of science, philosophy of cognitive science, and mathematical logic. Through his career he attempted drawing connection between his work on Structural Realism and the philosophy of science on the one hand and recent developments in computational neuroscience and empirical and theoretical psychology on the other hand. He has developed Epistemic Informational Structural Realism and Structural Realist theory of Self in his previous publications.

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Chapter 1: The Self, it's Substance, and its Structure: A Selective History.- Chapter 2: Being Realist About Structures.- Chapter 3: To Be Many or Not to Be, Grounds for a Structural Realist Account of the Self.- Chapter 4: The Structural Realist Theory of the Self.- Chapter 5: Phenomenal Aspects.- Chapter 6: Social Aspects.-