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eliminativism, the view that there aren’t any selves. As the eliminativist sees it, to believe in the self is to believe in a fiction. Eliminativists allow that talk of the self plays useful roles in ordinary life, but such talk– they argue – doesn’t refer to any genuine feature of reality. The roots of eliminativism are a philosophically novel view – it can be found in the Abhidharma Buddhist texts of the 3rd century BCE – but its contemporary influence is due to science. Science, so the argument goes, doesn’t tell us what selves are – it tells us that they aren’t.
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