Logi Gunnarsson

Philosophy of Personal Identity and Multiple Personality (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135212810
• Artikelnr.: 38263973

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
Bilbilgraphy
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