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Identity and Memory
Ryley Hinton
Jan 01, 0001
For my Summer Fellows project, I researched personal identity in a philosophical way. The goal was to disambiguate the concept of self-identity, understand what the main notions of identity are, and look at how they apply in...
Published by: Ursinus College
The changing self
Hannah Scott
Feb 03, 2022
This paper explores the impact of dementia on the selfhood of women, specifically the ways in which changes occur as a result of such a diagnosis. Interviews were conducted with 12 women (recruited from the Improving the...
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What About Moral Motherhood? An Exploration Into the Maternal Body as an Object and Subject
Haley Zorger
Jan 01, 0001
The relationship between selfhood and motherhood has long been debated. Is the mother a subject when she is pregnant and raising a child? I claim this is a double-bind. The mother can either be a transcendent subject, as Simone...
Published by: Ursinus College
What You See is What You Get
Kevin Kempisty
Jan 01, 0001
This thesis statement describes and comments on the four videos that compose my thesis exhibition, "What you See is What You Get." Together, they constitute a self-portrait. Videos require multiple mediums and software, each...
Published by: Winthrop University
The Functional Convergence and Heterogeneity of Social, Episodic, and Self-Referential Thought in the Default Mode Network.
The default mode network (DMN) is engaged in a variety of cognitive settings, including social, semantic, temporal, spatial, and self-related tasks. Andrews-Hanna et al. (2010; Andrews-Hanna 2012) proposed that the DMN consists...
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Faces Bright With Relief: Creative Nonfiction Essays on Growing Up
Mara Koren
Jan 01, 0001
I never know how to describe this project. I tell people I'm writing creative nonfiction essays, and hope that's confusing enough that they don't question me further. I hate throwing out the word "memoir." It sounds pretentious....
Published by: Ursinus College
Interplay of rhizome and education for sustainable development

One of the central challenges within education for sustainable development (ESD) is in empowering learners to reframe mindsets, particularly those that result in unsustainable behaviours and/or actions. This paper introduces...

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Faces Bright With Relief: Essays on Growing Up
Mara C Koren
Jan 01, 0001
A collection of memoir essays with themes of family, gender, and growing up, with an introduction essay reflecting on the process of writing these essays, and the challenges of writing truthfully.
Published by: Ursinus College
Self as Object:
Jie Sui, Xiaosi Gu
Nov 01, 2017

Self representation is fundamental to mental functions. While the self has mostly been studied in traditional psychophilosophical terms ('self as subject'), recent laboratory work suggests that the self can be measured...

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Interplay of rhizome and education for sustainable development

One of the central challenges within education for sustainable development (ESD) is in empowering learners to reframe mindsets, particularly those that result in unsustainable behaviours and/or actions. This paper introduces...

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Self as Object:
Jie Sui, Xiaosi Gu
Nov 01, 2017

Self representation is fundamental to mental functions. While the self has mostly been studied in traditional psychophilosophical terms ('self as subject'), recent laboratory work suggests that the self can be measured...

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The self survives extinction
Jie Sui, Glyn W. Humphreys
Oct 01, 2017

People show biases to self-related information on a range of tasks. Key but controversial questions are whether self-related information is processed without attention, and whether self-related information determines what is...

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The self survives extinction
Jie Sui, Glyn W. Humphreys
Oct 01, 2017

People show biases to self-related information on a range of tasks. Key but controversial questions are whether self-related information is processed without attention, and whether self-related information determines what is...

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