The Self in Recent Philosophy

FAIN: FF-10324-74

Brown University (Providence, RI 02912-9100)
Roderick M. Chisholm (Project Director: January 1974 to present)

To examine the relevance of recent philosophical work to a number of traditional philsophical problems pertaining to the nature of the self, e.g. the problem of personal identity, self-awareness and self-observation, freedom and agency. "Recent philosophy" is understood to refer primarily to American, British, and Western European philosophy of the past 20 years.