Personal identity and fractured selves
Subtitle: the self, personal identity, and the brain
By: edited by Debra J.H. Mathews, Hilary Bok, and Peter V. Rabins.
Contributors: Mathews, Debra J. H.; Bok, Hilary, 1959-; Rabins, Peter V.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9780801893384
Subjects: Identity (Psychology); Personality disorders; Neuropsychology; Self Concept; Brain -- physiopathology; Neurosciences; Personal Autonomy; Personality; Philosophy
Description: "This book brings together some of the best minds in neurology and philosophy to discuss the concept of personal identity and the moral dimensions of treating brain disease and injury. The contributors engage a crucial question: When an individual's personality changes radically because of disease or injury, should this changed individual be treated as the same person?" "Personal Identity and Fractured Selves represents the first formal collaboration between the Brain Sciences Institute and the Berman Institute of Bioethics, both at the Johns Hopkins University. The book asks neuroscientists and philosophers to address important questions on the topic of personal identity in an effort to engage both fields in fruitful conversation."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: How philosophers think about persons, personal identity, and the self / Maura Tumulty; title: Toward a neurobiology of personal identity / Peter V. Rabins and David M. Blass; title: Case studies / David M. Blass; title: Getting our stories straight : self-narrative and personal identity / Marya Schechtman; title: Personal identity and choice / Carol Rovane; title: Diminished and fractured selves / John Perry; title: After Locke : Darwin, Freud, and psychiatric assessment / Samuel Barondes; title: The fictional self / Michael S. Gazzaniga.