Personal Identity and Fractured Selves: Perspectives from Philosophy, Ethics, and Neuroscience

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Index advance care directive, 113–17 agnosia. See anosagnosia Alexander, M. P., 47 altered consciousness, 62 Alzheimer disease: case study, 50–53; clinical background, 53–54, 167; fear of living with, 152; forensic personhood, 71–74; left hemisphere interpreter, 178; person theory, 134, 73–74; rational agency, 113 amnesia, 93, 139 amnestic syndrome, 43–44, 45 analysis, paradox of, 20 anosagnosia, 40, 178 Anscombe, G. E. M., 192 apathy syndrome: Alzheimer disease, 60; case study, 58–59; clinical background, 59–60; commitments, 119; forensic personhood, 76–77; frontotemporal dementia, 57, 60; hydrocephalus , 60; person theory, 134, 152–55; rational agency, 121–26; stroke, 60; traumatic brain injury, 60 Aristotle, 112, 132 atrophy, brain, 52, 56 autonomy: Alzheimer disease, 152; capacity for, 29; cultural factors, 92; entitlements and responsibilities , 149–51; limitation, 150; obligations to past/future selves, 158; person theory , 130, 133–34; respect for, 75, 138; violation of, 135, 149, 173 Bargh, J. A., 183 Battersby, W. S., 180 Bavelas, J. B., 183 behavior: moral or ethical, 181–82; ritualistic compulsive, 57; socially inappropriate, 57 behavioral matching, 183 Bender, M. B., 180 Bergman, Ingrid, 141 Bernieri, F. J., 183 biological diversity, 166 bipolar disorder, 157; manic phase (substance induced) (see steroid psychosis) birth, nonbiological, 121, 126 Blascovich, Jim, 179 body-switching, 94, 96, 136–37 Bond, James, 25 Botvinick, M., 47 brain atrophy, 52, 56 brain injury/disease, 18, 25, 39, 43, 168, 169– 70 brain vs. mind, 10–12, 131 Broca, Paul, 39 Cacioppo, J. T., 183 Carey, S., 182 Carroll, Leo G., 141 Cartesian dualism, 10–12, 131 Castañeda, Hector-Neri, 139 Cattell, Raymond, 41 causal etiology, 124 center of consciousness, 99 challenge, ontological, 16, 19, 20, 23–24 chameleon effect, 183–84 change, qualitative, 18, 23 Charles Bonnet syndrome, 41 Chartrand, T. L., 183 Chisholm, R., 32 Churchland, Patricia, 48 cognition, human, 39 Cohen, Jonathan, 182 Colden, Albina, 183 conflict, social, 184 congruency, social, 184 consciousness: center of, 99; unified, 96 contagion, emotional, 183, 184 Corkin, S., 43 corpus callosum, severing of. See split brain Costa, Paul, 41 D’Argembeau, A., 47 Darwin, Charles, 48, 166 death, nonbiological, 7, 116, 121, 126 deep brain stimulation, 58–59, 76–77, 117, 119, 125, 152, 178 delirium, 62 delusion, paranoid, 62 dementia, 4, 20; frontotemporal, 115 Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders , 168, 169, 170 DID. See dissociative identity disorder Die Another Day, 25 disinhibition, 57 dissociative identity disorder, 6, 7, 66, 67–68, 94, 146, 170 dissonance: cognitive, 178; narrative, 87 Dorland’s Illustrated Medical Dictionary, 6 DSM. See Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders emotional contagion, 183, 184 empathy, 174, 183 engagement, distinctively interpersonal forms, 97, 102 entitlement, 66, 67, 68, 69 epilepsy, 44, 175, 179 epistemological challenges, 16, 19, 20, 23–24, 135 ethical criterion of personhood: definition, 97; ethical distinctiveness, 100; implications for personal identity, 101; pragmatic test, 110; range of ethical concerns, 99; rational unity, 105; restrictiveness, 98; rights of nonpersons , 99–100; treatment of nonpersons, 98 etiology, causal, 124 extroversion, 41 Eysenck, Hans, 41 Falk, D., 47, 48 Festinger, L., 178 fMRI. See imaging, brain forensic personhood: Alzheimer disease, 71– 74; apathy syndrome, 76–77; deep brain stimulation, 76–77; definition, 68; degrees, 2, 171; frontotemporal dementia, 74–76; limits, 4–5; Lockean, 170; personal identity, 66–71; personality changes, 6; self, 9; steroid psychosis, 78–79 Fossati, P. S., 47 freedom of conscience or of speech, 99 Frege, Gottlob, 31 Freud, Sigmund, 166, 172 frontotemporal dementia: case study, 54–57; clinical background, 57–58, 167; forensic personhood, 74–76; left hemisphere interpreter , 178; nonbiological death, 26; person theory, 134, 148; personal identity, 25; personality , 42–43; rational agency, 113–17 FTD. See frontotemporal dementia functional magnetic resonance imaging. See imaging, brain GAF. See Global Assessment of Functioning Scale Gage, Phineas, 42 Gall, Franz Joseph, 41 Gallese, V., 183 Gallup, G. G., 47, 48 Geach, P., 31 Global Assessment of Functioning Scale, 7, 32, 169, 171 Grafton, S. T., 183 Greene, Joshua, 182 group persons, 3, 96, 99, 101, 106–8, 108–11, 126 guidelines, psychiatric, 169 hallucinations, 41, 62 Harlow, J. M., 42 Hatfield, E., 183 Hauser, Mark, 182 Hitchcock, Alfred, 141 Hogan, R., 41 homuncular theory, 110–11 human identity. See numerical identity humanism, 110 human-size persons, 3, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 117, 126 200 Index Hume, David, 30, 152, 153 hygiene, disregard for personal, 57 hyperorality, 57...