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

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Pub. Date: 2020-09-16
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Author Biography


Enoch Lambert, Postdoctoral Associate, Centre for Cognitive Studies, Tufts University,John Schwenkler, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Florida State University

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.

Table of Contents


Introduction, Enoch Lambert and John Schwenkler
1. Who Will I Become?, L.A. Paul
2. Being Someone Else, Martin Glazier
3. How Personal Theories of the Self Shape Beliefs About Personal Continuity and Transformative Experience, Sarah Molouki, Stephanie Y. Cheng, Oleg Urminsky, and Daniel M. Bartels
4. Models of Transformative Decision Making, Samuel Zimmerman and Tomer Ullman
5. Transformative Experience and the Knowledge Norms for Action: Moss on Paul's Challenge to Decision Theory, Richard Pettigrew
6. What Is it Like to Have a Crappy Imagination?, Nomy Arpaly
7. What Imagination Teaches, Amy Kind
8. Transformative Activities, Agnes Callard
9. Transformative Expression, Nick Riggle
10. Learning from Moral Failure, Matthew Cashman and Fiery Cushman
11. Risking Belief, John Schwenkler
12. What Can Adaptive Preferences and Transformative Experiences Do for Each Other?, Rosa Terlazzo
13. Punishment and Transformation, Jennifer Lackey
14. Either/Or: Subjectivity, Objectivity, and Value, Katalin Balog
15. Death: The Ultimate Transformative Experience, Evan Thompson

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