Subjectivity and being somebody : human identity and neuroethics / Grant Gillett.

By:

Gillett, Grant, 1950-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: St. Andrews studies in philosophy and public affairs ; v. 12.Publication details: Exeter, UK ; Charlottesville, VA : Imprint Academic, ©2008.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 286 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781845402846
1845402847

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Subjectivity and being somebody.DDC classification:

100 22

LOC classification:

BD438.5 .G55 2008eb

NLM classification:

2009 F-961
BF 697

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CC 6600

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Contents:

1 Introduction -- 2 Origins -- 3 What I Am Not -- 4 Metaphysical Subjectivity -- 5 The Moral Subject -- 6 The Sins of the Fathers -- 7 Deep Play In the Mechanics of the Mind -- 8 Names and Narratives -- 9 Care of the Soul -- 10 The Expulsion of Humanity -- 11 Retrospective and Conclusion.

Summary: 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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-282) and index.

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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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