Philosophy of personal identity and multiple personality

• Main Author: Gunnarsson, Logi.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York : Routledge, 2009.
• Series: Routledge studies in contemporary philosophy ; 17.
• Subjects: Self (Philosophy); Identity (Philosophical concept); Identity (Psychology); Multiple personality.; Individuation (Philosophy); Individuation (Psychology); PHILOSOPHY > Metaphysics.; PSYCHOLOGY > Personality.; PHILOSOPHY > Mind & Body.; Electronic books.
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess; MyiLibrary

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 ps...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Am I alone in my body?
• Multiple personality
• Personal identity
• Diachronic identity
• What am I fundamentally?
• Empirical discernability and fission
• My body
• The various senses of "personal identity"
• 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.