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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813391003321

Autore

Gillett Grant

Titolo

Subjectivity and being somebody [[electronic resource] ] : human identity and neuroethics / / Grant Gillett

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Exeter, : Imprint Academic, 2008

ISBN

1-283-44533-6

9786613445339

1-84540-284-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (293 p.)

Collana

St. Andrews studies in philosophy and public affairs

Disciplina

128.2

Soggetti

Subjectivity

Identity (Psychology)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Front Matter; Title Page; Publisher Information; Dedication; Preface; Subjectivity and Being Somebody; Introduction; Origins; What I Am Not; MetaphysicalSubjectivity; The Moral Subject; The Sins of the Fathers; Deep Play in theMechanics of Mind; Names and Narratives; Care of the Soul; The Expulsion ofHumanity; Retrospective andConclusion; Back Matter; Appendices; Appendix A: On method in moral science; Appendix B: Essence and identity; Appendix C: On possible worlds and metaphysics; Appendix D: Kant's I and the refutation of idealism; Appendix E: On natural kinds

Appendix F: The problem of referenceBibliography; Also Available

Sommario/riassunto

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 multi...