The Self
A History
Patricia Kitcher
Author Information
Patricia Kitcher, Roberta and William Campbell Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University
Patricia Kitcher received her BA in Philosophy from Wellesley College and her PhD in Philosophy from Princeton. Before coming to Columbia, she taught at the University of Vermont, the University of Minnesota, and the University of California, San Diego. Her specialties are the philosophy of Kant and the philosophy of psychology.
Contributors:
Christian Barth is a member of the Philosophy Faculty at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Besides his historical work on, among other topics, "Leibniz and Consciousness," he has contributed to contemporary philosophy of language and mind and is author of Objectivity and the Language-Dependence of Thought with Routledge.
Ruth Boeker is Assistant Professor in Philosophy at University College Dublin and a member of the UCD Centre for Ethics in Public Life. She is the author of Locke on Persons and Personal Identity (forthcoming in 2021).
Charly Coleman is Associate Professor of History at Columbia University. He is the author of numerous studies of the self, including The Virtues of Abandon: An Anti-Individualist History of the French Enlightenment.
Therese Scarpelli Cory is John and Jean Oesterle College Chair and Associate Professor of Philosophy at Notre Dame. In 2013, she published Aquinas on Self-Knowledge with Cambridge University Press.
Don Garrett is Silver Professor of Philosophy at New York University. He is the author of Cognition and Commitment in Hume's Philosophy, Hume, and Nature and Necessity in Spinoza's Philosophy.
Sacha Golob is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at King's College, London. His work is on modern French and German Philosophy: he is the author of Heidegger on Concepts, Freedom and Normativity (CUP 2014), and the Editor of the Cambridge History of Moral Philosophy (CUP 2017).
Alison Hanson is a medical resident at Columbia and a member of Yuste's laboratory.
Jari Kaukua is a researcher at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland. He has written extensively on Islamic Philosophy, including a book on Self-Awareness in Islamic Philosophy: Avicenna and Beyond with Cambridge University Press.
Patricia Kitcher is Roberta and William Campbell Professor of Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University. She has written two books on the relation between Kant's theories of cognition and of the self.
Antjie Krog is an Afrikaans poet, writer and Professor in the Faculty of Arts at the University of the Western Cape. Apart from 12 volumes of poetry, she published Country of my Skull, on the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission; A Change of Tongue about the transformation in South Africa after ten years of democracy and Begging to be Black on learning to live within a black majority.
Vili Lähteenmäki is an Academy of Finland Research Fellow at the University of Helsinki in Finland. He has written several essays in the history of philosophy of mind, including "Orders of Consciousness and Forms of Reflexivity in Descartes" and "Cudworth of Types of Consciousness".
Maria Loh is Professor of Art History at Hunter College, CUNY. She has published three books on Titian and on portraiture. Her current research is on representations of the early modern sky.
Janet Metcalfe is Professor of Psychology at Columbia University. Her current research is focused on metacognition—how humans know that they know.
Gary Ostertag is Affiliated Associate Professor of Philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Nassau Community College. He works on philosophy of language and the history of analytic philosophy.
Christopher Peacocke is Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University and Fellow of the Institute of Philosophy in the School of Advanced Study in the University of London. His most recent book is The Primacy of Metaphysics.
Pauliina Remes is professor in history of philosophy at the Uppsala University in Sweden. Among other works in ancient philosophy, she has published a book on Plotinus on Self with the Cambridge University Press.
Rafael Yuste is Professor of Biological Sciences at Columbia. He studies neural circuits in the mammalian cortex and also in cnidarians.
