New essays connecting recent scientific studies with traditional issues about the self explored by Descartes, Locke and Hume.

Introduction: consciousness and the self; 1. Awareness and identification of self David Rosenthal; 2. Self-representationalism and the explanatory gap Uriah Kriegel; 3. Thinking about the self John Perry; 4. Ordinary self-consciousness Lucy O'Brien; 5. Waiting for the self Jesse Prinz; 6. I think I think, therefore I am - I think: skeptical doubts about self-knowledge Fred Dretske; 7. Knowing what I want Alex Byrne; 8. Self-ignorance Eric Schwitzgebel; 9. Personhood and consciousness Sydney Shoemaker; 10. My non-narrative, non-forensic Dasein: the first and second self Owen Flanagan.