Becoming Someone New - Essays on Transformative Experience, Choice, and Change

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.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: L.A. Paul: Who Will I Become?


• 2: Martin Glazier: Being Someone Else


• 3: Sarah Molouki, Stephanie Y. Cheng, Oleg Urminsky, and Daniel M. Bartels: How Personal Theories of the Self Shape Beliefs About Personal Continuity and Transformative Experience


• 4: Samuel Zimmerman and Tomer Ullman: Models of Transformative Decision Making


• 5: Richard Pettigrew: Transformative Experience and the Knowledge Norms for Action: Moss on Paul's Challenge to Decision Theory


• 6: Nomy Arpaly: What Is it Like to Have a Crappy Imagination?


• 7: Amy Kind: What Imagination Teaches


• 8: Agnes Callard: Transformative Activities


• 9: Nick Riggle: Transformative Expression


• 10: Matthew Cashman and Fiery Cushman: Learning from Moral Failure


• 11: John Schwenkler: Risking Belief


• 12: Rosa Terlazzo: What Can Adaptive Preferences and Transformative Experiences Do for Each Other?


• 13: Jennifer Lackey: Punishment and Transformation


• 14: Katalin Balog: Either/Or: Subjectivity, Objectivity, and Value


• 15: Evan Thompson: Death: The Ultimate Transformative Experience

About the author

Enoch Lambert is Postdoctoral Associate in the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University. He has a PhD in philosophy from Harvard University, and he works on issues in philosophy of mind and biology.

John Schwenkler is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Florida State University. He is the author of Anscombe's Intention: A Guide (OUP, 2019). His research interests are in the philosophy of mind and action.

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.

Product details

• Authors: Enoch (Postdoctoral Associate Lambert
• Assisted by: Lambert (Editor), Schwenkler (Editor), Enoch Lambert (Editor), Enoch (Postdoctoral Associate Lambert (Editor), John Schwenkler (Editor), John (Associate Professor of Philosophy Schwenkler (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9780198823735
• ISBN: 978-0-19-882373-5
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Business administration; PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Psychology, Ethics & moral philosophy, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Ethics and moral philosophy, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge, Decision theory: general