Philosophy of Personal Identity and Multiple Personality

AvLogi Gunnarsson

Inbunden, Engelska, 2009

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2009-06-26
Mått:152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt:610 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
Antal sidor:230
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9780415800174

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Filosofiska discipliner inom Filosofi och religion

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Logi Gunnarsson is Professor of Philosophy at University of Potsdam, Germany.

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"a fine contribution to the discussion of the phenomenon of multiple personality and, more broadly, to issues of personal identity. The analysis is sharp; the writing, clear and succinct."--John P. Lizza, Notre Dame Philosophical Review

Innehållsförteckning

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