The center is financed by the Danish National Research Foundation, with supplementary funding from the University of Copenhagen (Faculty of Humanities, Faculty of Theology, Faculty of Health Sciences).
General Aim of the Center
The status and nature of the self is increasingly being discussed in a variety of fields, not only in the humanities, but also in cognitive neuroscience, developmental psychology, and psychiatry. Some scientists have recently questioned the legitimacy of the concept. Some have argued that the self is nothing but a neurologically induced illusion, others that it is a mere social convention. In contrast, the guiding hypothesis of center’s research program is that the notion of self is crucial for a proper understanding of cognition, action, sociality, and experience, and consequently indispensable for a variety of different disciplines including social philosophy, psychiatry, philosophy of mind, developmental psychology, cultural studies and cognitive neuroscience.
