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Transformative Experience

Transformative Experience

Transformative Experience
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Transformative Experience Paperback - 2016

by Paul, L. A

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Oxford Univ Pr, 2016. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 189 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.50 inches.
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  • Title Transformative Experience
  • Author Paul, L. A
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition New
  • Pages 208
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford Univ Pr, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2016
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # __0198777310
  • ISBN 9780198777311 / 0198777310
  • Weight 0.57 lbs (0.26 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.4 x 5.3 x 0.5 in (21.34 x 13.46 x 1.27 cm)
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Philosophical
  • Category Philosophy
  • Library of Congress subjects Decision making, Experience
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2014943575
  • Dewey Decimal Code 153.8
  • Quantity available 1

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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 one makes.

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.

About the author

L. A. Paul received her PhD from Princeton in 1999, and taught at Yale and the University of Arizona before coming to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is a Professorial Fellow at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland.
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