creators_name: Dennett, Daniel C type: journalp datestamp: 1998-04-05 lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:53:46 metadata_visibility: show title: The Origins of Selves ispublished: pub subjects: phil-mind subjects: phil-sci full_text_status: public abstract: What is a self? Since Descartes in the 17th Century we have had a vision of the self as a sort of immaterial ghost that owns and controls a body the way you own and control your car. date: 1989 date_type: published publication: Cogito volume: 3 pagerange: 163-173 refereed: TRUE citation: Dennett, Daniel C (1989) The Origins of Selves. [Journal (Paginated)] document_url: http://cogprints.org/257/1/originss.htm