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Gillett, Grant

Subjectivity and Being Somebody

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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.

Keywords: Philosophy, Neuroscience, Neuroethics, ethics, Human Nature, humanity, Personhood, metaphysics, neo-Aristotelian, reductionism, psychosurgery, neuroimplantation, cyborgs, self, multiple personality disorder, spirituality

Author(s)
Publisher
Andrews UK
Publication year
2011
Language
en
Edition
2
Series
St Andrews Studies in Philosophy and Public Affairs
Page amount
293 pages
Category
Philosophy
Format
Ebook
eISBN (ePUB)
9781845402853
Printed ISBN
9781845401160

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