Virtual Selves, Real Persons: A Dialogue across Disciplines Reprint Edition

"Showing a masterful grasp of the cross-disciplinary research on self, Richard Hallam provides an impressive, yet highly readable and sometimes humorous review of the different past and present thinking on the self. Virtual Selves, Real Persons lays the groundwork for an authentic dialogue between constructivists and natural scientists, neurophilosophy and social science and offers new insights to all students of self and serious self searchers."
--Kieron O’Connor, University of Montreal

"...Hallam brings together views on self from a variety of disciplines, including but not limited to philosophy, psychology, sociology, and anthropology... In so doing, he allows the reader to see that struggling to understand self is perhaps more important to our nature as human beings than the answers that derive from that search. The historical perspective the author brings to the discussion serves as a unifying thread across the multiple disciplines. By viewing self in this manner, Hallam provides a launching place from which natural scientists, social scientists, philosophers, and historians can find a common topic of inquiry... this work would be an excellent choice for a course on history of science or for those interested in fostering dialogue (and academic courses) without disciplinary boundaries... Recommended..."
R E Osborne, Texas State University--San Marcos, Choice