The Self

Patricia Kitcher received her BA in Philosophy from Wellesley College and her PhD in Philosophy from Princeton. Before coming to Columbia, she taught at the University of Vermont, the University of Minnesota, and the University of California, San Diego. Her specialties are the philosophy of Kant and the philosophy of psychology.

• ContentsAcknowledgementsSeries Editor's ForewordList of ContributorsIntroduction. Patricia KitcherChapter 1. "Augustine on Cogitation and Self-Constitution: Drawing from and surpassing the Plotinian stance." Pauliina RemesChapter 2. "The Heritage of Ibn Sina's Concept of the Self." Jari KaukuaChapter 3. "Aquinas and 'I': A Medieval Concept of Self." Therese Scarpelli CoryChapter 4. "Cartesian Subjects of Experience as Selves." Vili LähteenmäkiChapter 5. "Locke on Being Self to my Self." Ruth BoekerChapter 6. "Leibniz on the Self." Christian BarthReflection: "Metacognition and the Self-Concept." Janet MetcalfeChapter 7. "The Idea of Self in Hume's Treatise." Don GarrettChapter 8. "Diderot, the Self, and the Science of Dreaming." Charly ColemanReflection: "Caravaggio's Self-Regard." Maria LohChapter 9. "Kant on the Unity of Self-Consciousness and Moral Agency." Patricia KitcherChapter 10. "Self-Awareness and the 'Self' in the Phenomenological Tradition." Sacha GolobReflection: "You are an I": Elisabeth Bishop's "In the Waiting Room." Gary OstertagChapter 11. "Self and Self-Representation in the Long 20th Century: A Critical Discussion." Christopher PeacockeReflection: "Spontaneous Neural Activity and the Self: a Neuroscience Perspective." Alison Hanson and Rafael YusteChapter 12. "Rethinking the Self within an African Philosophical paradigm. (Through poems and songs.)" Antjie KrogBibliographyIndex