SHAUN GALLAGHER'S NATURALIZED PHENOMENOLOGICAL CONCEPTION OF SELF VS CHARLES TAYLOR'S ANTI-NATURALISTIC NARRATIVE PERSPECTIVE

This article intends to compare the anti-naturalist narrativist model of Self by Charles Taylor with the narrativist and naturalist conception of Self proposed by Shaun Gallagher to show that Gallagher's theory responds to the criticisms of naturalism expounded by Taylor, providing a more complete conception of the narrativist self that take into account both the subpersonal aspects (embodied in cognitive science explanations) and the personal aspects (the social and cultural dimension) of the constitution of the Self.