Alfred R. Mele

Backsliding

Understanding Weakness of Will

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

People backslide. They freely do things they believe it would be best on the whole not to do. Mele draws on work in social and developmental psychology and in psychiatry to motivate a view of human behavior in which both backsliding and overcoming the temptation to backslide are explicable.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 211g
• ISBN-13: 9780199366644
• ISBN-10: 0199366640
• Artikelnr.: 39740607

Autorenporträt

Alfred R. Mele is the William H. and Lucyle T. Werkmeister Professor of Philosophy at Florida State University. He is the author of six previous OUP books: Irrationality (1987), Springs of Action (1992), Autonomous Agents (1995), Motivation and Agency (2003), Free Will and Luck (2006), and Effective Intentions (2009). He also is the editor of The Philosophy of Action (OUP 1997) and a coeditor of four other OUP volumes: Mental Causation (1993), The Oxford Handbook of Rationality (2004), Rationality and the Good (2007), and Free Will and Consciousness: How Might They Work? (2010).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Introduction
2. Weakness of Will and Akrasia
3. Weakness and Compulsion
4. Accounting for Backsliding: Background and More
5. Self-Control
6. Conclusion
References
Index