Sarah Stroud / Christine Tappolet (eds.)

Weakness of Will and Practical Irrationality

Herausgeber: Stroud, Sarah; Tappolet, Christine

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Sarah Stroud and Christine Tappolet present eleven original essays on weakness of will, a topic straddling the divide between moral philosophy and philosophy of mind, and the subject of much current attention. An international team of established scholars and younger talent provide perspectives on all the key issues in this fascinating debate; the book will be essential reading for anyone working in the area.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Oktober 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 165mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 595g
• ISBN-13: 9780199257362
• ISBN-10: 0199257361
• Artikelnr.: 21837783

Autorenporträt

Stroud, Sarah (Department of Philosophy, McGill University, Canada) / Tappolet, Christine (Department of Philosophy, University of Montreal, Canada)

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1: Michael Smith: Rational Capacities, or: How to Distinguish
Recklessness, Weakness, and Compulsion
* 2: Richard Holton: How is Strength of Will Possible?
* 3: Philip Pettit: Akrasia, Collective and Individual
* 4: Christine Tappolet: Emotions and the Intelligibility of Akratic
Action
* 5: Sarah Stroud: Weakness of Will and Practical Judgement
* 6: Sergio Tenenbaum: Accidie, Evaluation, and Motivation
* 7: Gary Watson: The Work of the Will
* 8: Ralph Wedgwood: Choosing Rationally and Choosing Correctly
* 9: Duncan MacIntosh: Prudence and the Temporal Structure of Practical
Reasons
* 10: Joseph Heath: Practical Irrationality and the Structure of
Decision Theory
* 11: Ronald de Sousa: Paradoxical Emotion: On sui generis Emotional
Irrationality