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 investiga...

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Other Authors: Lambert, Enoch (Editor), Schwenkler, John (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (305 p.)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780192556967
0192556967
9780191862519
0191862517