| Description |
1 online resource (305 p.) |
| Contents |
Editors' Introduction / Enoch Lambert and John Schwenkler -- Who Will I Become? / L. A. Paul -- Being Someone Else / Martin Glazier -- How Personal Theories of the Self Shape Beliefs about Personal Continuity and Transformative Experience / Sarah Molouki, Stephanie Y. Chen, Oleg Urminsky, and Daniel M. Bartels -- Models of Transformative Decision-Making / Samuel Zimmerman and Tomer Ullman -- Transformative Experience and the Knowledge Norms for Action / Richard Pettigrew -- What Is It like to Have a Crappy Imagination? / Nomy Arpaly -- What Imagination Teaches / Amy Kind -- Transformative Activities / Agnes Callard -- Transformative Expression / Nick Riggle -- Learning from Moral Failure / Matthew Cashman and Fiery Cushman -- Risking Belief / John Schwenkler -- What Can Adaptive Preferences and Transformative Experiences Do for Each Other? / Rosa Terlazzo -- Punishment and Transformation / Jennifer Lackey -- Either/Or: Subjectivity, Objectivity and Value / Katalin Balog -- Death / Evan Thompson |
| Summary |
How should we decide whether to experience something that is unlike anything we have ever encountered? Philosophers have recently argued that we are in situations of this kind for more of our decisions than we usually recognize. This volume brings together philosophers and psychologists to investigate the phenomenon of transformative experience |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (IMF, viewed Sept. 18, 2020) |
| Subject |
Change.
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Becoming (Philosophy)
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Imagination (Philosophy)
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Becoming (Philosophy)
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Change
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Imagination (Philosophy)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lambert, Enoch, editor
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Schwenkler, John, editor
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| ISBN |
9780192556967 |
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0192556967 |
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9780191862519 |
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0191862517 |
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