rich, fascinating and evolving thoughts about what he calls "the self" . . . how stimulating and enjoyable it is to engage with the original and invariably elegant essays in Strawson's book.
Galen Strawson holds the President's Chair of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Freedom and Belief (Oxford, 1986, 2nd edition 2010); The Secret Connexion: Causation, Realism, and David Hume (Oxford 1989, 2nd edition 2014); Mental Reality (MIT Press 1994, 2nd edition 2009), Selves: An Essay in Revisionary Metaphysics (2009, revised edition 2011); Locke on personal identity: Consciousness and
Concernment (2011, 2nd edition 2014); and The Evident Connexion: Hume on personal identity (2011, 2nd edition 2014).