portant notion in several areas of philosophy. This book then shoulders quite a burden, which I am happy to say it discharges admirably. The book consists of seven chapters, some of which carry on the central account, others of which take us off to explore a by-way of expression. The question of why the book is called Self-Expression, rather than Expression is answered in the first chapter. One can express emotions that are not one’s own (as an artist might by constructing a piece that expresses a melancholy he does not feel), while self-expression is a matter of expressing one’s own emotions. Green situates his own account within four other models of communication, two familiar (the code model and the inferential...