Logi Gunnarsson

Philosophy of Personal Identity and Multiple Personality

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. April 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 151mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 348g
• ISBN-13: 9780415849173
• ISBN-10: 0415849179
• Artikelnr.: 37086431

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
Inbdex