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L. A. Paul - Transformative Experience - 9780198777311 - V9780198777311
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Transformative Experience

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Description for Transformative Experience Paperback. .
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198777311
SKU
V9780198777311
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Ref
99-2

About L. A. Paul
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.

Reviews for Transformative Experience
Transformative Experience hits the sweet spot: it's a significant scholarly work, bearing on deep philosophical issues, but its also engaging and accessible.
Paul Bloom, Yale University
This book offers a very rigorous account of the notions of transformative experience and rationally moving into the future . . . Recommended.
Choice
a rich, insightful, compelling book. ... Read more

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