Epistemic Akrasia
The Monist 85 (3):381-397 (2002)
| Abstract | One way of discerning what sort of control we have over our mental lives is to look at cases where that control is not exercised. This is one reason why philosophers have taken an interest in the phenomenon of akrasia, in an agent's ability to do, freely and deliberately, something that they judge they ought not to do. Akrasia constitutes a failure of control but not an absence of control. The akratic agent is not a compulsive; an akratic agent has the ability to control their action, to make it conform to their judgement, but they fail to exercise that ability. They freely and deliberately give in to temptation. | |||||||||
| Keywords | No keywords specified (fix it) | |||||||||
| Categories | No categories specified (fix it) | |||||||||
| Options |
|
|||||||||
Download options| PhilPapers Archive |
Upload a copy of this paper Check publisher's policy on self-archival Papers currently archived: 5,664 |
| External links |
 |
| Through your library | Configure |
Similar books and articlesDavid Owens (2002). Epistemic Akrasia. The Monist 85 (3):381-397.
Sergio Tenenbaum (1999). The Judgment of a Weak Will. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 59 (4):875-911.
Arthur F. Walker (1989). The Problem of Weakness of Will. Noûs 23 (5):653-676.
Brian Ribeiro (2011). Epistemic Akrasia. International Journal for the Study of Skepticism 1:18-25.
Daniel Guevara (2009). The Will as Practical Reason and the Problem of Akrasia. The Review of Metaphysics 62 (3):525-550.
Alfred R. Mele (1988). Irrationality: A Precis. Philosophical Psychology 1 (2):173-177.
Andrei Buleandra (2009). Doxastic Transparency and Prescriptivity. Dialectica 63 (3):325-332.
Daniel Greco (forthcoming). A Puzzle About Epistemic Akrasia. Philosophical Studies.
Alfred R. Mele (2004). Outcomes of Internal Conflicts in the Sphere of Akrasia and Self-Control. In Peter Baumann & Monika Betzler (eds.), Practical Conflicts: New Philosophical Essays. Cambridge University Press.
Jessica Moss (2009). Akrasia and Perceptual Illusion. Archiv für Geschichte Der Philosophie 91 (2):119-156.
David Wall (2009). Akrasia and Self-Control. Philosophical Explorations 12 (1):69 – 78.
Devin Henry (2002). Aristotle on Pleasure and the Worst Form of Akrasia. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 5 (3):255-270.
Analytics
Monthly downloads |
Added to index2011-09-08Total downloads18 ( #67,474 of 548,999 )Recent downloads (6 months)2 ( #37,320 of 548,999 )How can I increase my downloads? |
My notes
Discussion
