Self to Self: Selected Essays
Self to Selfcollects eleven articles David Velleman has published in the last decade, as well as two previously unpublished articles ("The Centered Self" and "A Brief Introduction to Kantian Ethics"), and a useful and substantive introduction.  This is an outstanding group of articles: each one is truly excellent, and a number of them rank among the best recent philosophical papers on moral psychology, ethics and agency. . . .   It almost goes without saying thatSelf to Selfis required reading for anyone who has any interest in any of these topics. --Sergio Tenenbaum in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=10843)Following J. David Velleman's papers as they are published, it is easy to wonder how a single person could have so many good thoughts on so many topics. Read as a collection, the thirteen essays ofSelf to Selfsuggest an answer to that question. In these essays a single set of insights is applied over a range of philosophical contexts. What emerges is a gratifyingly rich picture of the self, informing all of the essays but only partially visible in each. . . Anyone who reads this collection is . . . certain to be enlightened and provoked. Above all,Self to Selfprovides a compelling model of the character at its core -- a human mind trying to understand itself and to offer reasons we all can share. --Marya Schechtman inEthics, October 2006