"The Self in Question" offers a humanistic account of
self-consciousness and personal identity, providing a much-needed
rapprochement between Analytic and Phenomenological approaches to
self-consciousness. In Analytic philosophy, a resurgence of
interest in the topic of self-consciousness has been inspired by
the work of Gareth Evans. Both Evans and his successors make the
plausible assumption that self-consciousness is a capacity
manifested in the use of "I," or through behaviour which must be
described in terms of "I." "The Self in Question" develops this
assumption through an analysis of Wittgenstein's insights into
"I"-as-subject and self-identification, relating them - as their
author did not - to the epistemology of memory and bodily
awareness. As a result, it is able to discern the truth in the
apparently discredited memory criterion of personal identity. It
also draws on Husserl's and Merleau-Ponty's understanding of the
body's significance for self-consciousness, to offer a critique of
materialism about the body.
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