Logi Gunnarsson - Philosophy of Personal Identity and Multiple Personality

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Gunnarsson, Logi.
Philosophy of personal identity and multiple personality / by Logi Gunnarsson.
p. cm.(Routledge studies in contemporary philosophy ; 17)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Self (Philosophy) 2. Identity (Philosophical concept) 3. Identity (Psychology) 4. Multiple personality. 5. Individuation (Philosophy) 6. Individuation (Psychology) I. Title.
BD438.5.G86 2010
126dc22
2009006523

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I recently read in a German newspaper that you should thank your enemies in the preface: the reason is that once they are thanked, they are disqualified from reviewing your work, at least in the North American tradition. I wont be thanking my enemies. So, any way you look at it, it seems that I am in trouble.

I dont really know when I started working on this project. My guess is that it was sometime in 1998 or 1999. It doesnt really matter, but it is a problem that I am no longer sure who helped me in the long process. Ill take notes next time and ask for forgiveness this time. In 20002001, I spent a year at the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University and I am grateful to the center for awarding me a Laurance S. Rockefeller Fellowship. (This project was also supported by the Icelandic Center for Research in 2000 and 2002.) By the end of my year at Princeton, I had a long paper in English that included many of the basic ideas of this book, though they have been revised and developed in various ways. I would like to thank my colleagues at Princeton and elsewhere in the U.S.in particular at the conference of the International Society for the Study of Dissociation in San Antonio in 2000who talked with me about my ideas during that year: Stephen Braude, Harry Frankfurt, Mark Johnston, Sean Kelly, Batrice Longuenesse, Richard Moran, Alexander Nehemas, Jennifer Radden, Margo Rivera, Carol Rovane, Peter Singer, and Leif Wenar. In particular, I would like to thank Heda Segvic (19572003) for her written comments on the paper I delivered at the University Center for Human Values.

After returning to the Humboldt University in Berlin, I began the task of turning the material into a book. By the beginning of 2005, I had a complete draft in German. During this period, I profited most from discussions with R. Jay Wallace, who read drafts of most of the chapters, though he had left Berlin for Berkeley. Rolf-Peter Horstmanns research colloquium, in which I presented my work on several occasions, was another important forum. Of the people in this circle, special thanks go to Dina Edmundts, Rolf-Peter Horstmann, and Ulrich Schlsser, who all also discussed my work with me outside the colloquium. In addition, Olaf Mller read drafts of several chapters and I profited greatly from his comments and the discussion at a meeting of his research seminar.

After taking up a position at the University of Liverpool in 2005, I started revising parts of the manuscript in English. I received valuable written comments from my colleagues at Liverpool (Barry Dainton, Jonardon Ganeri, Stephen McLeod) and from Jennifer Whiting. A fourth phase began after I joined the TU Dortmund University in 2006. Since then, I have benefited from comments by Stephen Braude, Christian Budnik, Robin Celikates, Nadja El Kassar, Martina Herrmann, Stefan Kbler, Res Mettler, Jennifer Radden, and Michelle Wthrich. I gained a great deal of insight from several discussions with Lutz Wingert on my work. I also received important impetus from the discussion of my papers with Michael Quante and others in his research colloquium in Cologne in 2007 and with Monika Betzler and others in her research seminar in Bern in 2008. Finally, I would like to express my gratitude to all the audiences at the different places I have given talks on these topics in the past ten years.