Philosophy of Personal Identity and Multiple Personality

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-415-84917-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 242 Seiten, Format (B × H): 151 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 348 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gunnarsson, Logi

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

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Über Autor(innen)

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