02545nam 2200469 a 450 991081339100332120230721014406.01-283-44533-697866134453391-84540-284-7(CKB)2670000000107530(EBL)744325(OCoLC)745866954(MiAaPQ)EBC744325(EXLCZ)99267000000010753020120113d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||Subjectivity and being somebody[electronic resource] human identity and neuroethics /Grant GillettExeter Imprint Academic20081 online resource (293 p.)St. Andrews studies in philosophy and public affairsDescription based upon print version of record.1-84540-116-6 Includes bibliographical references.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 kindsAppendix F: The problem of referenceBibliography; Also AvailableThis 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...St. Andrews studies in philosophy and public affairs.SubjectivityIdentity (Psychology)Subjectivity.Identity (Psychology)128.2Gillett Grant615888MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910813391003321Subjectivity and being somebody1082281UNINA