Philosophy of Personal Identity and Multiple Personality
Paperback Engels 2013 9780415849173Samenvatting
As witnessed by recent films such as Fight Club and Identity, our culture is obsessed with multiple personality—a phenomenon raising intriguing questions about personal identity. This study offers both a full-fledged philosophical theory of personal identity and a systematic account of multiple personality. Gunnarsson combines the methods of analytic philosophy with close hermeneutic and phenomenological readings of cases from different fields, focusing on psychiatric and psychological treatises, self-help books, biographies, and fiction. He develops an original account of personal identity (the authorial correlate theory) and offers a provocative interpretation of multiple personality: in brief, "multiples" are right about the metaphysics but wrong about the facts.
Specificaties
Lezersrecensies
Inhoudsopgave
Preface
Part I: Introduction
- Am I Alone in My Body?
- Multiple Personality
- Personal Identity
Part II: Diachronic Identity
- What Am I Fundamentally?
- Empirical Discernability and Fission
- My Body
- The Various Senses of "Personal Identity"
Part III: Multiple Personality and Individuation
- Morton Prince’s Seminal Case Study The Dissociation of a Personality
- Philosophical Theories of Multiple Personality
- The Coexistence Thesis
- Sharing My Body
- A Criterion of Individuation
- Multiple Personality in Therapeutic and Biographic Discourses
- Multiple Personality in Literary Discourses
Notes
Bilbilgraphy
Inbdex
Rubrieken
- advisering
- algemeen management
- coaching en trainen
- communicatie en media
- economie
- financieel management
- inkoop en logistiek
- internet en social media
- it-management / ict
- juridisch
- leiderschap
- marketing
- mens en maatschappij
- non-profit
- ondernemen
- organisatiekunde
- personal finance
- personeelsmanagement
- persoonlijke effectiviteit
- projectmanagement
- psychologie
- reclame en verkoop
- strategisch management
- verandermanagement
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