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Selves

Galen Strawson

2009448 pagesabout 7–10 hours
2009
first published
  • 2009Oxford University Press · ENGISBN 9781282348875
  • 2009Oxford University Press Inc. · 448 pages · ENGISBN 9780198250067
  • 2011Oxford University Press · 472 pages · ENGISBN 9780199693108

Is there such a thing as the self? If so, what is it? Galen Strawson argues that if we look closely at what experience of a self is like, we may be able to work out what a self must be, if it exists. He concludes that selves do exist, but they are not what we think.

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