The Emergent Self (Cornell Studies in the Philosophy of Religion)
"Hasker. . . presents an engaging and carefully argued account of why most contemporary forms of materialism and dualism fail to explain mind and self. . . ..This is the kind of wide-ranging and careful study that deserves a symposium at the next APA meeting! Highly recommended. . . "—Choice . May 2, 2000."The Emergent Self is valuable not least because it runs so thoroughly against the grain of contemporary philosophy of mind and metaphysics. . . It will be interesting to see how the internalist Kantians he discusses in this book—Henry Allison, Marcia Baron, David Cummiskey, Barbara Herman, Thomas Hill, Christine Korsgaard, and Onora O'Neill—respond to his challenging arguments."—Robert Roberts, Baylor University. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Nov. 2002."This is the clearest, most systematic and compelling challenge to a materialist philosophy of mind in the current literature. William Hasker develops a series of substantial, well-crafted arguments in the course of articulating a nonreductive account of the self. His book is an outstanding achievement in philosophy of mind."—Charles Taliaferro, St. Olaf College