Self to Self


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Selected Essays
Author(s): J. David Velleman
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13: 9780521670241, 978-0521670241

Synopsis

Self to Self brings together essays on personal identity, autonomy, and moral emotions by the distinguished philosopher J. David Velleman. Although each of the essays was written as an independent piece, they are unified by an overarching thesis, that there is no single entity denoted by 'the self', as well as by themes from Kantian ethics, psychoanalytic theory, social psychology, and Velleman's work in the philosophy of action. Two of the essays were selected by the editors of Philosophers' Annual as being among the ten best papers in their year of publication. Aimed primarily at professional philosophers and advanced students, Self to Self will also be of interest to psychologists and others who theorize about the self.