Philosophy of Personal Identity and Multiple Personality

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Philosophy of Personal Identity and Multiple Personality

Psychology Western philosophy from c 1800 Philosophy of mind

Author: Logi Gunnarsson

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Collection: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

Language: English

Published by: Routledge

Published on: 11th September 2009

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 388 Kb

ISBN: 9781135212810


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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