Kategoria BISAC: Philosophy >> Mind & Body

What is the self? Is it the impregnable cogito of Descartes or the shattered self of Nietzsche? Or has it become serendipitously constituted from pieces of fairy tales and novels, childhood comics and soap operas - a multitude of forces culled from fashion, modern myth, culture and recreation? Or must we still convince ourselves, like Rousseau, that the self can never be tainted; that it is, above all else, irrefrangible?

Paul Ricoeur proposed that the self is formed within the narratives we tell of ourselves, that it is itself a form of narrative. But is this enough? Could a self...

Die erfolgreiche Einfuhrung in die Philosophie des Geistes liegt mit diesem Band nun in der dritten, nochmals uberarbeiteten Auflage vor. Das Studienbuch informiert in systematischer Orientierung uber den gegenwartigen Stand der Diskussion. Die Grundfragen, die mit dem Leib-Seele-Problem verbunden sind, die zu diesen Fragen vertretenen Positionen sowie die entsprechenden Argumente und Gegenargumente werden knapp, aber so umfassend dargestellt, dass sich die Leser einen zuverlassigen Uberblick verschaffen konnen.

Although the physical relationship between the natural world and individuals is quantifiable, the psychosocial effect of the former on the latter is often less tangible. What, for instance, is the connection between the environment in which we live and our creativity? How is our consciousness bounded and delimited by our materiality? And from whence does our idea of self and our belief in free will derive and when do our surroundings challenge these basic assumptions?

Ecocritic Harold Fromm's challenging exploration of these and related questions twines his own physical experiences...

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...