Philosophy of Personal Identity and Multiple Personality: 17 (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy)

Logi Gunnarsson

ISBN 10: 041580017X / ISBN 13: 9780415800174

Published by Routledge 2009-06-26, 2009

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Philosophy of Personal Identity and Multiple Personality: 17 (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy)
• Publisher: Routledge 2009-06-26
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 041580017X
• ISBN 13: 9780415800174
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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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.

About the Author

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