Becoming someone new : essays on transformative experience, choice, and change /

"This book presents fifteen new essays on the topic of transformative experience, choice, and change. Questions that are covered include: What is the nature of personal transformation? How can choices for or against transformative change be rational? To what extent can imagination help us to an...

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Essays on transformative experience, choice, and change
Editors' Introduction /
Who Will I Become? /
Being Someone Else /
How Personal Theories of the Self Shape Beliefs about Personal Continuity and Transformative Experience /
Models of Transformative Decision-Making /
Transformative Experience and the Knowledge Norms for Action /
What Is It like to Have a Crappy Imagination? /
What Imagination Teaches /
Transformative Activities /
Transformative Expression /
Learning from Moral Failure /
Risking Belief /
What Can Adaptive Preferences and Transformative Experiences Do for Each Other? /
Punishment and Transformation /
Either/Or: Subjectivity, Objectivity and Value /
Death /
Hauptverfasser:
Lambert, Enoch, Schwenkler, John
Weitere Verfasser:
Lambert, Enoch (HerausgeberIn), Schwenkler, John (HerausgeberIn)
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
New York, United States of America : Oxford University Press USA - OSO, 2020.
Ausgabe:
First edition.
Zusammenfassung:
"This book presents fifteen new essays on the topic of transformative experience, choice, and change. Questions that are covered include: What is the nature of personal transformation? How can choices for or against transformative change be rational? To what extent can imagination help us to anticipate the nature of transformative experience? What are some mechanisms of personal transformation? How is the concept of transformative experience relevant to moral and political philosophy?"--
Umfang:
1 online resource (vi, 294 pages) : illustrations.
Anmerkungen:
This edition also issued in print: 2020.
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0-19-186251-7
0-19-255695-9
0-19-255696-7
Schlagworte:
Change.
Becoming (Philosophy)
Imagination (Philosophy)
Philosophy.
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