Selves: An Essay in Revisionary Metaphysics
Selves is a wonderfully engaging and provocative book. True, it is long, often complex, and sometimes dense and difficult, with many by-ways and detours en route to its astonishing conclusion - but it is also bold, brilliantly written, and packed full with insights, arguments and speculations. Barry Dainton, Philosophy A rewardingly crunchy philosophical inquiry into whether selves exist, structured as a brilliantly engineered machine for disagreeing with. Steven Poole, The Guardian Selves is full of interesting arguments and claims, and exhibits a resolute independence of mind with is extremely refreshing. E. J. Lowe, Analysis Reviews Strawson... applies a masterful grasp of the subject and has given us one of the most thorough, well-argued books on the existence and nature of the self in recent years. Phil Jenkins, Metapsychology This is a work of profound philosophical reflection by a philosopher of intellectual power and exemplary integrity, qualities that are liable to take you far off the beaten track. The result displays the imagination and audacity we have come to expect of Strawson. Thomas Nagel, London Review of Books This brilliant and provocative book is about more than its title suggests... I found this an impressive book. throughout the level of philosophical intelligence is very high, and the discussion is historically and scientifically well-informed, and often insightful and illuminating. The phenomenological observations, for example those in the discussion of the stream of consciousness, are often very acute. The writing is often brilliant... it is a rewarding book to read, even for those, like myself, who are unpersuaded by its central claims. Sydney Shoemaker, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews