Logi Gunnarsson (Germany University of Dortmund)

Philosophy of Personal Identity and Multiple Personality

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Produktbeschreibung

As witnessed by the films such as "Fight Club" and "Identity", our culture is obsessed with multiple personality - a phenomenon raising intriguing questions about personal identity. This title offers both a philosophical theory of personal identity and an account of multiple personality.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 464g
• ISBN-13: 9780415800174
• ISBN-10: 041580017X
• Artikelnr.: 27034586

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Part I: Introduction
1. Am I Alone in My Body?
2. Multiple Personality
3. Personal Identity
Part II: Diachronic Identity
4. What Am I Fundamentally?
5. Empirical Discernability and Fission
6. My Body
7. The Various Senses of "Personal Identity"
Part III: Multiple Personality and Individuation
8. Morton Prince's Seminal Case Study The Dissociation of a Personality
9. Philosophical Theories of Multiple Personality
10. The Coexistence Thesis
11. Sharing My Body
12. A Criterion of Individuation
13. Multiple Personality in Therapeutic and Biographic Discourses
14. Multiple Personality in Literary Discourses
Notes
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