Danilo Manca

Conflicting images of the self: A metaphilosophical inquiry into the constitution of selfhood

Synthese June 19, 2026 Danilo Manca

This article develops a metaphilosophical account of the constitution of selfhood by situating contemporary debates on the minimal and the narrative self within Wilfrid Sellars’s distinction between the manifest and the scientific images. I argue that neither a minimal nor a narrative conception of the self straightforwardly entails a commitment to either image. Rather, depending on how they...