"This volume examines the affective and social dimensions of self-related activities. This is a novel way of approaching traditional questions such as the scope and purpose of self-knowledge, the interrelation between the social and the individual person, and the significance of emotional appraisal. Focusing on self-evaluation instead of self-knowledge in shifting from a doxastic to an axiological perspective. The scientific added value created by this approach is threefold: i) it opens up a broadr perspective on the structure of self-reflection which includes a matrix of values; ii) as valauations imply a social contaxt, it extends to social relations; iii) since affective attitudes are crucial for the recognition of values, it incorparates feelings and emotions. In short, self-evaluation is a conception of self-refelection which includes sociality and affectivity. This volume contains contributions by leading figures in philosophy of mind and action, emotion theory, and phenomenology. It allows a global view on the most recent reflections on the subject matter, being of interest for professional philosophers, as well as for researchers from various nighboring disciplines."--Publisher's website.
Self-evaluation : philosophical perspectives / Anita Konzelmann Ziv -- How to have self-directed attitudes / Lynne Rudder Baker -- Interpretation, cause, and avowal : on the evaluative dimension of selfhood / Axel Seemann -- Who do you thinkg you are? The how-what theory of character and personality / Federico Lauria and Alain Pé-Curto -- Self-evaluation and the ends of existence / Carol Rovane -- Self-evaluation and action / Juliette Gloor -- Self-trust and social truth / Keith Lehrer -- Sentimentalism and self-directed emotions / Jesse Prinz -- Psychopathic resentment / John Deigh -- Self-knowledge, knowledge of others, and "the thing called love" / Edward Harcourt -- Is shame a social emotion? / Julien Deonna and Fabrice Teroni -- Feeling up to it : the sense of ability in the phenomenology of action / Hans Bernhard Schmid -- Self-evaluation in intention : individual and shared / Lilian O'Brien -- Where individuals meet society : the collective dimensions of self-evaluation and self-knowledge / Ulla Schmid.