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Irrationality: an essay on akrasia, self-deception, and self-control
Oxford: Oxford University Press (1987)
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The author demonstrates that certain forms of irrationality - incontinent action and self-deception - which many philosophers have rejected as being logically or psychologically impossible, are indeed possible.Author's Profile
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