Subjectivity and Being Somebody: Human Identity and Neuroethics (St Andrews Studies in Philosophy and Public Affairs) - Softcover

Gillett, Grant

 
9781845401160: Subjectivity and Being Somebody: Human Identity and Neuroethics (St Andrews Studies in Philosophy and Public Affairs)

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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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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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9781845401467: Subjectivity and Being Somebody: Human Identity and Neuroethics (St Andrews Studies in Philosophy and Public Affairs)

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ISBN 10:  1845401468 ISBN 13:  9781845401467
Verlag: Imprint Academic, 2008
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