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What is the self?
Author(s) -
Hanna Robert
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
annals of the new york academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.712
H-Index - 248
eISSN - 1749-6632
pISSN - 0077-8923
DOI - 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2011.06124.x
Subject(s) - sketch , metaphysics , natural (archaeology) , epistemology , ideal (ethics) , natural science , psychology of self , scientific theory , psychology , philosophy , cognitive science , computer science , history , archaeology , algorithm
In this paper I briefly sketch a theory that answers the question “what is the self?,” where this question is understood in a scientific sense that includes both natural science and systematic fundamental metaphysics. As selves, we are essentially rational human minded animals or real persons in a fully natural and desperately non‐ideal world—animals with meaningful lives, for better or worse.