The Mirror and the Mind : : A History of Self-Recognition in the Human Sciences / / Katja Guenther.
How the classic mirror test served as a portal for scientists to explore questions of self-awarenessSince the late eighteenth century, scientists have placed subjects—humans, infants, animals, and robots—in front of mirrors in order to look for signs of self-recognition. Mirrors served as the possib...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Modern Knowledge ;
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: Peripatetic Practices
- Part I Identifications
- 1 My Child in the Mirror: The Rise of the Mirror Self-Recognition Test
- 2 “Not Suddenly, but by Degrees”: Child Psychology, Gender, and the Ambiguity of the Mirror
- 3 The Dancing Robot: Grey Walter’s Cybernetic Mirror
- 4 Monkeys, Mirrors, and Me: Gordon Gallup and the Study of Self-Recognition
- Interlude
- Part II Misidentifications
- 5 The Mirror Test That Never Happened: Lacan, the Ego, and the Symbolic
- 6 There Are No Mirrors in New Guinea: Edmund S. Carpenter and the Question of “Tribal Man”
- 7 Diseases of the Body Image and the Ambiguous Mirror
- 8 Imperfect Reflections: Mirror Neurons, Emotion, and Cognition
- Conclusion: Failing the Test
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Archival Documents
- Index