Subjectivity and Being Somebody

Human Identity and Neuroethics

By:

Grant Gillett

Format:

Paperback / softback

Series:

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.

Author Biography:

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.

Release date Australia

December 31st, 2008

Author

Grant Gillett

Audience

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly

Pages

250

Series

St Andrews Studies in Philosophy and Public Affairs

Dimensions

135x210x18

ISBN-13

9781845401160

Product ID

2752996

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