Talking to Our Selves
Reflection, Ignorance, and Agency
John M. Doris
Reviews and Awards
"This is a valuable book. It reminds us, with striking real-life evidence, just how hidden we often are from ourselves. Whether this evidence is compatible with our being morally responsible agents is the next important conversation agency theorists ought to have, and we should be grateful to Doris for sparking it in such a bold, original, and colorful way." -- Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Online
"Talking to Our Selves is well-written and well-argued. And the wide-ranging evidence he considers makes for a very interesting and stimulating read. Moreover, its topic, the nature of human agency and moral responsibility, connects directly to the important question of what it means to be human...the theory deserves to be taken seriously, to be engaged and further developed, and to become an important part of our ongoing project of understanding ourselves." -- Metapsychology Online Reviews
"An informative and much-needed perspective on the hard questions of agency, responsibility, and conscious action.... This is an excellent book and would make an excellent text for a course or course segment on the nature of moral responsibility." --PsycCRITIQUES
"I found Doris's idea that agency can be exercised in ways beyond reflection compelling. A pluralistic approach to agency (and responsibility) is attractive if people's actions and judgments are not always based in reflective thought. In addition, the examples from psychological research he presents make reading his book a pleasure." -- Philosophical Psychology
