Philosophy of Personal Identity and Multiple Personality

New York: Routledge (2009)
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Abstract

As witnessed by recent films such as _Fight Club_ and _Identity_, our culture is obsessed with multiple personality—a phenomenon raising intriguing questions about personal identity. This study offers both a full-fledged philosophical theory of personal identity and a systematic account of multiple personality. Gunnarsson combines the methods of analytic philosophy with close hermeneutic and phenomenological readings of cases from different fields, focusing on psychiatric and psychological treatises, self-help books, biographies, and fiction. He develops an original account of personal identity and offers a provocative interpretation of multiple personality: in brief, "multiples" are right about the metaphysics but wrong about the facts

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