Conclusions: From self-knowledge to a science of the self

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1001, Issue , 2003, Pages 305-315

  Debiec, Jacek ^a   Ledoux, Joseph E ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain; First person account; Humanities; Science; Self; Third person account

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; HUMANITIES; LITERATURE; PHILOSOPHY; RELIGION; SCIENCE; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIOLOGY;

EID: 1942474477     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1279.018     Document Type: Conference Paper

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