title: What is the self?
abstract: 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.
authors: Department of Philosophy, C.B. 231, Hellems 142, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0232, USA. rhanna@colorado.edu
authors: Robert
authors: R
authors: Hanna
mesh_terms: D004532:Ego; D006801:Humans; D008678:Metaphysics; D010684:Philosophy; D012649:Self Concept