Philosophy of Personal Identity and Multiple Personality

✍ Scribed by Logi Gunnarsson

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 243
• Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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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