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Science 3 October 2003:
Vol. 302. no. 5642, p. 61
DOI: 10.1126/science.1091058
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NEUROSCIENCE:
Thoughts Without a Thinker

A review by Franz Mechsner and Albert Newen

Being No One The Self-Model Theory of Subjectivity
by Thomas Metzinger
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2003. 713 pp. $55, £35.95. ISBN 0-262-13417-9.

In this thorough discussion of the problem of the self, Metzinger draws on contemporary neuroscience to develop a new philosophical approach to consciousness.
F. Mechsner is at the Max Planck Institute for Psychological Research, Amalienstrasse 33, D-80799 Munich, Germany, and the Hanse Institute for Advanced Study, Delmenhorst, Germany. E-mail: fmechsner{at}h-w-k.de. A. Newen is at the Institute for Philosophy, University of Bonn, D-53113 Bonn, Germany, and the Hanse Institute for Advanced Study.

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