Publisher's Synopsis
This text studies personal identity. It continues a quest intensified in recent decades as scholars, clinicians, and researchers from a broad spectrum of disciplines were repeatedly confronted by the mind/body problem and the issue of personal identity. Shalom offers analysis of such thinkers as Freud, Wittgenstein, and Feigi; Smart, Armstrong, Strawson, Parfit, Wiener, Sayre, Nagel, Jaynes, and Sperry are also discussed. The author concludes that the body/mind concept cannot explain the makeup of a person. Only the concept of personal identity, ie the irreducibility of the concrete existing individual person can adequately encompass who and what we are. Shalom's conclusions touch themes such as consciousness, being, self-awareness, body, existence, brain, cybernetics, subjectivity, identity theory, mind, personal psychoanalysis, God and immortality. This book is aimed at philosophers, psychological and medical researchers and theologians.
