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Philosophy of Personal Identity and Multiple Personality Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy Series

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Couverture de l’ouvrage Philosophy of Personal Identity and Multiple Personality

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.


Preface



Part I: Introduction




  1. Am I Alone in My Body?



  2. Multiple Personality



  3. Personal Identity



    4. Part II: Diachronic Identity



  4. What Am I Fundamentally?



  5. Empirical Discernability and Fission



  6. My Body



  7. The Various Senses of "Personal Identity"



    8. 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


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Postgraduate and Undergraduate

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