Philosophy of Personal Identity and Multiple Personality
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Add to Cart- ISBN: 978-0-415-80017-4
- Binding: Hardback
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 26th June 2009
- Pages: 242
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About the Book
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.
Reviews
"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 ReviewTable of Contents
Preface
Part I: Introduction
- Am I Alone in My Body?
- Multiple Personality
- Personal Identity
- What Am I Fundamentally?
- Empirical Discernability and Fission
- My Body
- The Various Senses of "Personal Identity"
- 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
Part II: Diachronic Identity
Part III: Multiple Personality and Individuation
Notes
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