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Thomas Nagel · The I in Me: I and Me

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Your 10-digit subscription number is above your name on the address slip and begins with 400. If you subscribed via the website, you can enter the order number from your subscription confirmation email in place of your subscription number. More search Options Browse by Subject What are you, really? To the rest of the world you appear as a particular human being, a publicly observable organism with a complex biological and social history and a name. But to yourself, more intimately, you appear as ‘I’, the mental subject of your experiences, thoughts, feelings, memories and emotions. This inner self is only indirectly observable by others, though they ordinarily have no doubt about its existence, as you have no doubt about their inner lives. One of the enduring questions of philosophy is whether there really is such a thing as the self, and if so, what it is. Descartes famously thought that it was the thing of whose existence he could be most certain, even if he doubted the

Vol. 31 No. 21 · 5 November 2009 The I in Me Thomas Nagel Share on Bluesky Share on Facebook Share Email Print 2622 words Selves: An Essay in Revisionary Metaphysics by Galen Strawson . Oxford, 448 pp., £32.50, 0 19 825006 1 Show More Show More What are you, really? To the rest of the world you appear as a particular human being, a publicly observable organism with a complex biological and social history and a name. But to yourself, more intimately, you appear as 'I', the mental subject of your experiences, thoughts, feelings, memories and emotions. This inner self is only indirectly obs

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