The main themes : virtual selves, mind-body dualism, and natural science -- Conceptualising self -- Generic persons and selves -- Multiplicity within singularity -- Sense-of-self : the first-person perspective -- Self in historical explanation -- Self as historically positioned and narrated -- Philosophy's legacy to a science of self -- Self in mind and brain -- Self, person as agent and natural causation -- Self in child development -- Self in human evolution -- Loose ends and split hairs.