Investigations into the Trans Self and Moore's Paradox
This book explores how the trans phenomenon can challenge the existing concept of the Self and its nature. The catalyst is Moore’s Paradox: can a trans person coherently state ‘I am a girl but I don’t believe that’? More deeply, three fundamental philosop
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Investigations into the Trans Self and Moore’s Paradox
Linda A. W. Brakel
Investigations into the Trans Self and Moore’s Paradox
Linda A. W. Brakel University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI, USA
ISBN 978-3-030-44644-4 ISBN 978-3-030-44645-1 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44645-1
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To Arthur Brakel, who continues to make it all worthwhile.
Acknowledgments
I credit and thank my husband, Arthur Brakel, for the initial spark catalyzing the inquiry and hence the book. Also, allowing for the very possibility of this book, I appreciate the work of an anonymous Palgrave Macmillan reviewer, and my editor, Lauriane Piette, both of whom were encouragingly interactive. For invaluable theoretical and scientific information, I thank Justin Rhodes of the Beckman Institute at the University of Illinois. Additional acknowledgment for scholarly suggestions goes to Barb Smuts of the University of Michigan. For steady listening, I am grateful to my friends, Barb Smuts and Michael (Spider) Abner, with a special note for powerful questioning from Michael. And in this category too I recognize my intrepid husband and life-love partner, Arthur Brakel.
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Contents
Part I 1
Introduction
Introduction
Part II
3
Extant Philosophical Views of Self
2
Four Classical Philosophical Views of Self
25
3
Modern Philosophical Views of Self
53
4
Selected Contemporary Gender-Theorists’ Views; or Where Is the Self ?
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Part III 5
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