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Transformative Experience

Autor L. A. Paul
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 6 noi 2014
As we live our lives, we repeatedly make decisions that shape our future circumstances and affect the sort of person we will be. When choosing whether to start a family, or deciding on a career, we often think we can assess the options by imagining what different experiences would be like for us. L. A. Paul argues that, for choices involving dramatically new experiences, we are confronted by the brute fact that we can know very little about our subjective futures. This has serious implications for our decisions. If we make life choices in the way we naturally and intuitively want to--by considering what we care about, and what our future selves will be like if we choose to have the experience--we only learn what we really need to know after we have already committed ourselves. If we try to escape the dilemma by avoiding an experience, we have still made a choice. Choosing rationally, then, may require us to regard big life decisions as choices to make discoveries, small and large, about the intrinsic nature of experience, and to recognize that part of the value of living authentically is to experience one's life and preferences in whatever way they may evolve in the wake of the choices you make.Using classic philosophical examples about the nature of consciousness, and drawing on recent work in normative decision theory, cognitive science, epistemology, and the philosophy of mind, Paul develops a rigorous account of transformative experience that sheds light on how we should understand real-world experience and our capacity to rationally map our subjective futures.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780198717959
ISBN-10: 0198717954
Pagini: 202
Dimensiuni: 151 x 223 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

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L.A. Paul's Transformative Experience is one of the best kinds of philosophy books ... [it] has already received well-deserved public and philosophical attention, and should inspire research for years to come.
This book offers a very rigorous account of the notions of transformative experience and rationally moving into the future ... Recommended.
rich and thought-provoking ... Paul's book has proved enormously influential, and rightly so. The challenges that it presents to accounts of decision-making are deep, yet presented in a way that makes them accessible to a wide range of researchers and to those outside the academy. It has already succeeded in creating fascinating and productive discussions amongst philosophers of psychology, theorists of value, ethicists, formal epistemologists, political philosophers, philosophers of race, and feminist philosophers; moreover, it has brought researchers in psychology and economics into the debate as well. This is a rare achievement and one for which this book should be widely applauded.
Transformative Experience hits the sweet spot: Its a significant scholarly work, bearing on deep philosophical issues, but its also engaging and accessible.
It's a provocative, enticing book. It's an enjoyable read, accessible to both specialists in philosophy and non-philosophers. In fact, I teach it in my introductory philosophy classes. ... her work has sparked an explosion of interesting research

Notă biografică

L. A. Paul is Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Professorial Fellow at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland