Abstract

H. D. Lewis gave the Gifford Lectures at Edinburgh in 1966–1968. In The Elusive Mind and in The Elusive Self he expanded on the substance of the Lectures devoted to the defense of mind-body dualism and the self-identity of the person, respectively. The present book “rounds off” the first part of the final volume, The Elusive Self and God. Once more we are indebted to Lewis’s surgical finesse as he defends his libertarian view of free will against both more familiar objections and recent ones—as in Nowell-Smith, Elizabeth Anscombe, and Donald Davidson. This review is confined to key theses in Lewis’s concept of the self as moral agent.