Preface: Anita Konzelmann Ziv -- Self-Evaluation – Philosophical Perspectives -- PART I - Evaluative and Self Evaluative Attitudes -- How to Have Self-Directed Attidudes: Lynne Ruder Baker -- Interpretation, Cause and Avowal: On the Evaluative Dimension of Selfhood: Axel Seeman -- Who Do You Think You are? The How-What Theory of Character and Personality: Frederico Lauria & Alain Pé-Curto -- PART II - Self-Evaluation and Rationality -- Self-Evaluation and the Ends of Existence: Carol Rovane -- Self-Evaluation and Action: Juliette Gloor -- Self-Trust and Social Truth: Keith Lehrer -- PART III - Self-Evaluative Emotions -- Sentimentalism and Self-Directed Emotions: Jesse Prinz -- Psychopathic Resentment: John Deigh -- Self-Knowledge, Knowledge of Others, and ‘the thing called love’: Edward Hartcourt -- Is Shame a Social Emotion?: Julien Deonna & Fabrice Teroni -- PART IV – Evaluating the Social Self -- Feeling up to it – The Sense of Ability in the Phenomenology of Action: Hans Bernhard Schmid -- Self-Evaluation in Intention: Individual and Shared: Lilian O’Brien -- Where Individuals Meet Society. The Collective Dimensions of Self-Evaluation and Self-Knowledge: Ulla Schmid -- About the Authors.

This volume examines the affective and social dimensions of self-related activities. This is a novel way of approaching traditional questions such as the scope and purpose of self-knowledge, the interrelation between the social and the individual person, and the significance of emotional appraisal. Focusing on self-evaluation instead of self-knowledge in shifting from a doxastic to an axiological perspective. The scientific added value created by this approach is threefold: i) it opens up a broadr perspective on the structure of self-reflection which includes a matrix of values; ii) as valauations imply a social contaxt, it extends to social relations; iii) since affective attitudes are crucial for the recognition of values, it incorparates feelings and emotions. In short, self-evaluation is a conception of self-refelection which includes sociality and affectivity. This volume contains contributions by leading figures in philosophy of mind and action, emotion theory, and phenomenology. It allows a global view on the most recent reflections on the subject matter, being of interest for professional philosophers, as well as for researchers from various nighboring disciplines.