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This book discusses the themes of personhood and personal identity. It argues that while there is a metaphysical answer to the question of personal identity, there is no metaphysical answer to the question of what constitutes a person. The author argues against both body-mind dualism and physicalism and also against the idea that there is some metaphysically real category of persons distinct from the category of human beings or human organisms. Instead, the author presents neutral-monist, autopoietic-enactivist kind of metaphysics of the human being, and a relational, and completely human-dependent notion of a person. The tools used in these arguments include conceptual argumentation and empirical case studies. Using both personal experiences and studies of cultures all over the world, the author examines dualism between mind and body. The author discusses real people who seem to live a Cartesian life, as somehow disembodied minds as well as the concept of the person. The author uses the concluding chapters to present their own views arguing that questions about our identity should be separated from questions of our personhood as well as the concept of personhood. This volume is of interest to scholars of philosophy of mind.

Psychology --- persoonlijkheidsleer --- Philosophy of mind. --- Philosophy of Mind.

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This volume offers a review of the dangerous and difficult life of Karl Jaspers as well as an introduction to his extensive work and work in the fields of psychiatry, philosophy and liberal political education. This book is a translation of the original German 1st edition Karl Jaspers by Kurt Salamun, published by Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature in 2019. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation. Springer Nature works continuously to further the development of tools for the production of books and on the related technologies to support the authors. This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation.

Philosophy --- Psychology --- psychologie --- filosofie --- persoonlijkheidsleer --- Philosophy of mind. --- Philosophy of mind --- History.

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'In this absorbing book Christopher Hamilton brings together themes including the importance of a personal voice in philosophy, philosophy's self-image (and its need to be reawakened to its humanity), and the intricacies of truth and truthfulness in autobiography. Drawing important insights from autobiographical works by Benjamin, Sartre, Orwell, Edmund Gosse, Camus, and others, Hamilton explores the revealing way that the significance of a text can change for a reader over time; how undisclosed states of being remain hidden within, of all things, an autobiography; and how the voice of a text possesses a special power to draw us in. A brilliant and thought-provoking piece of work on a topic of deep human interest.' - Garry L. Hagberg, author of Describing Ourselves: Wittgenstein and Autobiographical Consciousness (2008), and Living in Words: Literature, Autobiographical Language, and the Composition of Selfhood (forthcoming). 'Philosophy and Autobiography is a truly excellent book--for its elegant, lively, and precise writing, for its lovely concreteness often achieved by intricate figures, for its lucid explanations, and for its timely and compelling argument. Hamilton manages to defend a difficult thesis about the autobiographical nature of philosophy not by analysis so much as by intimate and complex display of how autobiography affectively embodies processes of complex thinking.' - Charles Altieri, Professor of English, University of California, Berkeley This book, taking its point of departure from Stanley Cavell's claim that philosophy and autobiography are dimensions of each other, aims to explore some of the relations between these forms of reflection, first by seeking to develop an outline of a philosophy of autobiography, and then by exploring the issue from the side of five autobiographical works. Christopher Hamilton argues in the volume that there are good reasons for thinking that philosophical texts can be considered autobiographical, and then turns to discuss the autobiographies of Walter Benjamin, Peter Weiss, Jean-Paul Sartre, George Orwell, Edmund Gosse and Albert Camus. In discussing these works, Hamilton explores how they put into question certain received understandings of what philosophical texts suppose themselves to be doing, and also how they themselves constitute philosophical explorations of certain key issues, e.g. the self, death, religious and ethical consciousness, sensuality, the body. Throughout, there is an exploration of the ways in which autobiographies help us in thinking about self-knowledge and knowledge of others. A final chapter raises some issues concerning the fact that the five autobiographies discussed here are all texts dealing with childhood. Christopher Hamilton is Reader in Philosophy at King's College London, UK. He is the author of five previous books, including A Philosophy of Tragedy (2016), as well as articles in ethics, philosophy of religion and aesthetics.

Psychology --- Aesthetics --- psychologie --- esthetica --- persoonlijkheidsleer --- Philosophical literature. --- Philosophy of mind.

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This book brings together a team of international scholars to attempt to understand David Hume’s conception of the self. The standard interpretation is that he holds a no-self view: we are just bundles of conscious experiences, thoughts and emotions. There is nothing deeper to us, no core, no essence, no soul. In the Appendix to A Treatise of Human Nature, though, Hume admits to being dissatisfied with such an account and Part One of this book explores why this might be so. Part Two turns to Books 2 and 3 of the Treatise, where Hume moves away from the ‘fiction’ of a simple self, to the complex idea we have of our flesh and blood selves, those with emotional lives, practical goals, and social relations with others. In Part Three connections are traced between Hume and Madhyamaka Buddhism, Husserl and the phenomenological tradition, and contemporary cognitive science. Dan O’Brien is Reader in Philosophy at Oxford Brookes University, UK, and founder and organizer of the Oxford Hume Forum. He has published on Hume, philosophy of mind, epistemology, teleology, gardening, Caravaggio and cubism; his books have been translated into Korean, Portuguese and Arabic (forthcoming).

Psychology --- History of philosophy --- filosofie --- geschiedenis --- persoonlijkheidsleer --- Philosophy of mind. --- Philosophy --- Philosophy of Mind. --- History of Philosophy. --- History.

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Many philosophical approaches today seek to overcome the division between mind and body. If such projects succeed, then thinking is not restricted to the disembodied mind, but is in some sense done through the body. From a post-Cartesian perspective, then, ritual activities that discipline the body are not just thoughtless motions, but crucial parts of the way people think.Thinking Through Rituals explores religious ritual acts and their connection to meaning and truth, belief, memory, inquiry, worldview and ethics. Drawing on philosophers such as Foucault, Merleau-Ponty and W

Philosophy --- Body [Human ]--Psychological aspects --- Body and mind --- Esprit et corps --- Geest en lichaam --- Mind --- Mind and body --- Mind-cure --- Ritual --- Ritueel --- Rituel --- Somatopsychics --- Ritual. --- Mind and body. --- Religion --- 291.3 --- Body and soul (Philosophy) --- Human body --- Mind-body connection --- Mind-body relations --- Brain --- Dualism --- Philosophical anthropology --- Holistic medicine --- Mental healing --- Parousia (Philosophy) --- Phrenology --- Psychophysiology --- Self --- Cult --- Cultus --- Liturgies --- Public worship --- Symbolism --- Worship --- Rites and ceremonies --- Ritualism --- Philosophy. --- Godsdienstwetenschap: cultus; liturgie --- Psychological aspects --- 291.3 Godsdienstwetenschap: cultus; liturgie --- Music --- filosofie