| Subjectivity and Being Somebody: Human Identity and Neuroethics Contributor(s): Gillett, Grant (Author) |
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ISBN: 1845401166 ISBN-13: 9781845401160 Publisher: Imprint Academic (Ips) OUR PRICE: $33.16 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2008 Annotation: This work examines the varieties of reductionism that affect philosophical writing about human origins and identity. Gillett goes on to discuss the effects of neurological interventions, such as psychosurgery, on the image of the human. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Mind & Body - Philosophy | Movements - Humanism - Philosophy | Metaphysics |
| Dewey: 128.2 |
| Series: St. Andrews Studies in Philosophy and Public Affairs (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.87" H x 5.52" W x 8.24" (0.76 lbs) 250 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Gillett, Grant: - 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. |
