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Gillett, Grant

 
9781845401467: Subjectivity and Being Somebody: Human Identity and Neuroethics
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1845401468 ISBN 13 : 9781845401467
Editeur : Imprint Academic, 2008

Synopsis

This book uses a neo-Aristotelian framework to examine human subjectivity as an embodied being. It examines the varieties of reductionism that affect philosophical writing about human origins and identity, and explores the nature of rational subjectivity as emergent from our neurobiological constitution. This allows a consideration of the effect of neurological interventions such as psychosurgery, neuroimplantation, and the promise of cyborgs on the image of the human. It then examines multiple personality disorder and its implications for narrative theories of the self, and explores the idea of human spirituality as an essential aspect of embodied human subjectivity.

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À propos de l'auteur

Grant Gillett is a neurosurgeon and professor of medical ethics at the University of Otago, New Zealand. He previously completed a doctorate in philosophy and held a fellowship at Oxford.

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Éditeur
Imprint Academic
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1845401468
ISBN 13 
9781845401467
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
250
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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