Thinking of Oneself as Someone: The Structure of Self-Representation.
Cognitive Science February 1, 2026 Julian Hauser
One question we can ask when investigating the nature of self-representation concerns the types of property that must figure in its content. Here, authors have claimed that self-representations must be about spatial, temporal, bodily, or mental properties. However, we can also ask a second question: how do we need to represent a property to self-represent it? I address this latter question. I...