Table of Contents

Introduction vi

1 The Self and the Phenomenal 1
Barry Dainton

2 Self-Doubt: Why We are not Identical to Things of Any Kind 26
Ingmar Persson

3 Self-Expression and Self-Control 45
Marya Schechtman

4 Against Narrativity 63
Galen Strawson

5 Transcendence of the Ego (The Non-Existent Knight) 87
Bas C. van Fraassen

6 The Self: the Incredulous Stare Articulated 111
Peter van Inwagen

Index 125

About the Author

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).

Reviews

"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)