人格と多重人格の哲学 Philosophy of Personal Identity and Multiple Personality (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy)

Gunnarsson, Logi

Routledge（2009/06発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 230 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780415800174
• DDC分類 128.2

基本説明

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 ficiton.

Full Description

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.

Contents

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


Bilbilgraphy


Inbdex