An original collection of lauded philosopher Galen Strawsons writings on the self and consciousness naturalism and panpsychism. Galen Strawson might be described as the Montaigne of modern philosophers endlessly curious enormously erudite unafraid of strange difficult and provocative propositions and able to describe them clearlyin other words he is a true essayist. Strawson also shares with Montaigne a particular fascination with the elastic and elusive nature of the self and of consciousnes