Self?

Galen Strawson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Reading and the City University of New York Graduate Center. He is the author of Freedom and Belief (1986), The Secret Connexion (1989) and Mental Reality (1994).

• Introduction vi1 The Self and the Phenomenal 1Barry Dainton2 Self-Doubt: Why We are not Identical to Things of Any Kind 26Ingmar Persson3 Self-Expression and Self-Control 45Marya Schechtman4 Against Narrativity 63Galen Strawson5 Transcendence of the Ego (The Non-Existent Knight) 87Bas C. van Fraassen6 The Self: the Incredulous Stare Articulated 111Peter van InwagenIndex 125

"This is a well-edited, concise collection [on] the metaphysics of selfhood.... Strawson does a fine editorial job in his comprehensive introduction to the papers." (Metapsychology)