HARWOOD FISHER is an independent scholar, lecturer, and consultant. Professor Emeritus, City College of the City University of New York, he was Chair of the Department of Social and Psychological Foundations. He was a founding member of Cognition, Language, Information Project (CLIP), which developed interdisciplinary seminars for scholars interested in human and machine reasoning. His theoretical studies probe the relationship between the self and human reasoning.  Among his more recent publications are Language and logic in personality and society (Columbia University, 1985); "The Mumford Effect in Psychology" (1993); "Whose Right is it to Define the Self?" (1995); "Context and Category" (1995); "Metonymy, Metaphor, and Category" (1998); and "Post-modern Agency: You and I can Show it not Own it". (1999).

Presently, his work focuses the self, particularly, the issue of subjectivity. His purpose is to depict the self as a subject. His view of the self's movement and structure is a portrait, within which, he relates ideas from psychology, cognitive science, semiotics, and art.

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