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- Title
How to Act Against Your Better Judgement.
- Authors
Sandis, Constantine
- Abstract
Those who object to Donald Davidson's understanding of how socalled weakness of the will is possible tend to argue that he is in some way committed to claiming that the weak-willed agent holds contradictory judgements in deliberation. In this paper I try to refine the more ambiguous aspects of Davidson's account in the light of some such objections, with the hope of showing that there is nothing paradoxical in what Davidson says. This refinement points to a different kind of weakness in Davidson's account, namely that it only deals with the kind of akrasia which Aristotle referred to as propeteia, when the case that is meant to me truly puzzling case is that of astheneia. I next argue that despite the failings of his explanation - which stem from his motivation internalism - Davidson's theory is essentially equipped with the right distinctions to show how astheneia may be possible after all.
- Publication
Philosophical Frontiers: A Journal of Emerging Thought, 2008, Vol 3, Issue 2, p111
- ISSN
1758-1532
- Publication type
Academic Journal