University Press of America
Pages: 176
Trim: 5½ x 8½
978-0-7618-0668-4 • Paperback • April 1997 • $70.99 • (£55.00)
James Giles, PhD, is a Panel Tutor in Philosophy at the University of Cambridge Institute for continuing Education. He has also taught at Universities in Australia, Canada, the UK, Denmark, Hawaii, and Guam. His published works include The Way of Awareness in Daoist Philosophy, Sexual Attraction: The Psychology of Allure, The Nature of Sexual Desire, and A Study in Phenomenalism.
James Giles' work is a clear, well-informed investigation of the psychological subject in the analytic style. It aims to correct some misleading assumptions that have distorted discussion of personal identity by philosophers and psychologists for centuries.
— John Pickering, Warwick University; Self and Identity
Giles has a gift of being able to express in an accessible manner very complex and at times technical arguments. He provides one of the best summaries of the literature of self and identity that I have seen recently. He wages his counter-arguments andlodges his criticisms of the positions with skill and insight. This is a book well worth taking seriously, if only as a test of any argument that proposes to defend a notion of the self and a meaningful personal identity. This book would be useful in graduate seminars in philosophical psychology, and it would be accessible to advanced undergraduates.
— James B. Sauer, St. Mary's University (San Antonio); The Personalist Forum
Giles has a gift of being able to express in an accessible manner very complex and at times technical arguments. He provides one of the best summaries of the literature of self and identity that I have seen recently. He wages his counter-arguments and lodges his criticisms of the positions with skill and insight. This is a book well worth taking seriously, if only as a test of any argument that proposes to defend a notion of the self and a meaningful personal identity. This book would be useful in graduate seminars in philosophical psychology, and it would be accessible to advanced undergraduates.
— James B. Sauer, St. Mary's University (San Antonio); The Personalist Forum
James Giles' work is a clear, well-informed investigation of the psychological subject in the analytic style. It aims to correct some misleading assumptions that have distorted discussion of personal identity by philosophers and psychologists for centuries.
— John Pickering, Warwick University; Self and Identity