Philosophy Of Personal Identity And Multiple Personality

Author : Logi Gunnarsson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135212813
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Philosophy of Personal Identity and Multiple Personality written by Logi Gunnarsson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-09-11 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Stephen E. Braude
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780847679966
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book First Person Plural written by Stephen E. Braude and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1995 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do people with multiple personalities have more than one self? The first full-length philosophical study of multiple personality disorder, First Person Plural maintains that even the deeply divided multiple personality contains an underlying psychological unity. Braude updates his work in this revised edition to discuss recent empirical and conceptual developments, including the charge that clinicians induce false memories in their patients, and the professional redefinition of "multiple personality disorder" as "dissociative identity disorder."

Author : David Shoemaker
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1551118823
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Personal Identity and Ethics written by David Shoemaker and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2008-10-07 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between personal identity and ethics remains on of the most intriguing yet vexing issues in philosophy. It is commonplace to hold that moral responsibility for past actions requires that the responsible agent is in some respect identical to the agent who performed the action. Is this true? On the other hand, can ethics constrain our account of personal identity? Do the practical requirements of moral theory commit us to the view that persons do remain identical over time? For example, does the moral status of abortion or stem cell research depend on whether personal identity is based on psychological or biological properties? Or is it the case that personal identity is not, in fact, relevant to ethics? Personal Identity and Ethics provides the first comprehensive examination of these issues. Topics include personal identity and prudential rationality; personal identity’s significance for moral responsibility and ethical theory; and the practical consequences of accounts of personal identity for issues such as abortion, stem cell research, cloning, advance directives, population ethics, multiple personality disorder, and the definition of death.

Author : Jennifer Radden
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262181754
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Divided Minds and Successive Selves written by Jennifer Radden and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1. heterogeneities of self in everyday life 2. a language of successive selves 3. multiplicity through dissociation 4. succession and recurrence outside dissociative disorder 5. From abnormal psychology to metaphysics: a methodological preamble 6. memory, responsibility, and contrition 7. purposes and discourses of responsibility ascription 8. multiplicity and legal culpability 9. paternalistic intervention 10. responsibilities over oneself in the future of one's future selves 11. a mataphysics of successive selves 12. the normative tug of individualism 13. therapeutic goals for a liberal culture 14. continuity sufficient for individualism 15. the divided minds of mental disorder 16. the grammar of disownership.

Author : Vibha Chaturvedi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Problem of Personal Identity written by Vibha Chaturvedi and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ian Hacking
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069105908X
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rewriting the Soul written by Ian Hacking and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1998-08-23 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Foucault once identified a politics that centers on the body and another that classifies and organizes the human population, Hacking has now provided a masterful description of the politics of memory: the scientizing of the soul and the wounds it can receive.

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135212821
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Philosophy of Personal Identity and Multiple Personality written by and published by Routledge. This book was released on with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Derek Parfit
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191622443
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reasons and Persons written by Derek Parfit and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1986-01-23 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book challenges, with several powerful arguments, some of our deepest beliefs about rationality, morality, and personal identity. The author claims that we have a false view of our own nature; that it is often rational to act against our own best interests; that most of us have moral views that are directly self-defeating; and that, when we consider future generations the conclusions will often be disturbing. He concludes that moral non-religious moral philosophy is a young subject, with a promising but unpredictable future.

Author : Stefan Berglund
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human and Personal Identity written by Stefan Berglund and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jonathan Glover
Publisher : Viking Adult
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I written by Jonathan Glover and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 1988 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a challenging book about how we come to be what we are - about our need to create an identity. The author argues by drawing on philosophical and psychological points, that we create our own identity by reacting to the way others see us or how we would like them to see us.