Philosophy of Personal Identity and Multiple Personality

Logi Gunnarsson is Professor of Philosophy at University of Potsdam, Germany.

• Preface Part I: Introduction Am I Alone in My Body? Multiple Personality Personal Identity Part II: Diachronic Identity What Am I Fundamentally? Empirical Discernability and Fission My Body The Various Senses of "Personal Identity" Part III: Multiple Personality and Individuation Morton Prince’s Seminal Case Study The Dissociation of a Personality Philosophical Theories of Multiple Personality The Coexistence Thesis Sharing My Body A Criterion of Individuation Multiple Personality in Therapeutic and Biographic Discourses Multiple Personality in Literary Discourses Notes Bilbilgraphy Inbdex

"a fine contribution to the discussion of the phenomenon of multiple personality and, more broadly, to issues of personal identity. The analysis is sharp; the writing, clear and succinct."--John P. Lizza, Notre Dame Philosophical Review