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ContributionsSarah Stroud (Editor), Christine Tappolet (Editor)
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Number of Pages328
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Open LibraryOL7404091M
ISBN 100199257361
ISBN 109780199257362

Weakness of Will and Practical Irrationality: Stroud, Sarah, Tappolet, Christine: Books - (2). This character suffers From a number of practical failures-indecision, irresoluteness, caprice, weakness of will, obstinacy, procrastination, impru­ dence, akrasia, awdze, and compulsion-many of which have been considered to be forms of practical irrationality. One important philosophical task arising.

Rational Capacities, or: How to Distinguish Recklessness, Weakness, and Compulsion Chapter: (p) 1 Rational Capacities, or: How to Distinguish Recklessness, Weakness, and Compulsion Source: Weakness of Will and Practical Irrationality Author(s): Michael Smith (Contributor Webpage) Publisher. Weakness of Will [Socrates, Aristotle, and Davidson] Close. Posted by 2 years ago. Archived. Weakness of Will [Socrates, Aristotle, and Davidson] Hello. I read the VII book of the Nicomachean Ethics, and Aristotle talks there about incontinence. It would mean a lot to me if someone could help me understand better the problem regarding.

Tappolet, Ch. Emotions and the intelligibility of Akratic action. In Weakness of will and practical irrationality, ed. S. Stroud and Ch. Tappolet, 97– Oxford: Cited by: 2. Forthcoming in S. Stroud and C. Tappolet (eds.) Weakness of Will and Practical Irrationality How Is Strength of Will Possible?1 Richard Holton Weakness of will is traditionally identified with akrasia: weak-willed agents, on this view, are those who intentionally do other than that which they judge to be Size: KB.


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Among the many practical failures that threaten us, weakness of will or akrasia is often considered to be a paradigm of irrationality. The eleven new essays in this collection, written by an excellent international team of philosophers, some well-established, some younger scholars, give a rich overview of the current debate over weakness of will and practical irrationality more generally/5(2).

Among the many practical failures that threaten us, weakness of will or akrasia is often considered to be a paradigm of irrationality. The eleven new essays in this collection give a rich overview of the current debate over weakness of will and practical irrationality more generally.

Among the many practical failures that threaten us, weakness of will or akrasia is often considered to be a paradigm of irrationality. The 11 essays in this collection, by an international team of philosophers, give an overview of the debate over weakness of will and practical irrationality.

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Abstract Among the many practical failures that threaten us, weakness of will or akrasia is often considered to be a paradigm of by: Weakness of Will and Practical Irrationality, Edited by Sarah Stroud and Christine Tappolet, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, ). ISBN This volume is a collection of papers, all but one of which were presented at a conference on the same topic at the.

The editors have also added a brief introduction, half of which is devoted to a very quick overview of some of the relevant background literature on weakness of will and practical irrationality, while the other half summarizes the main claims of each of the papers in the volume.

Among the many practical failures that threaten us, weakness of will or akrasia is often considered to be a paradigm of irrationality. The eleven new essays in this collection, written by an excellent international team of philosophers, some well-established, some younger scholars, give a rich overview of the current debate over weakness of will and practical irrationality more generally.5/5(1).

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Sarah Stroud and Christine Tappolet, eds., Weakness of Will and Practical Irrationality, Oxford,pp, $ (hbk), ISBN Reviewed by Patrick Henry Yarnell, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs This book contains eleven articles and includes works by some of the leading theorists in the field of practical rationality.

McIntyre points out that the traditional view that akrasia is always irrational seems to give us a perverse incentive to rationalize, since in that case we escape the grave charge of practical irrationality, being left only with the procedural practical defect present in all cases of weakness of will (McIntyrep.

But this seems Cited by: The aim of this book is to explain why that happens. The eleven new essays in this collection give a rich overview of the current debate over weakness of will and practical irrationality more. • Davidson, “How is weakness of will possible?” • Mele, Irrationality Ch.

1 o Mele, Irrationality Ch. 2 (optional) o Bratman, “Practical reasoning and weakness of the will” (optional) Week 4: Jan. 25 Is weakness of will possible? • Watson, “Skepticism about weakness of will” • Levy, “Resisting weakness .Stroud, Sarah, and Christine Tappolet, eds.

Weakness of Will and Practical Irrationality. Oxford: Clarendon, DOI: / E-mail Citation» This collection of eleven original essays offers a comprehensive overview of the contemporarydebates on weakness of will at the intersection of philosophy of mind and ethics. Weakness of Will and Practical Irrationality Weakness of Will and Practical Irrationality Setiya, Kieran The Philosophical Review, Vol.No.

1 (January ) Sarah Stroud and Christine Tappolet, eds. Weakness of Will and Practical Irrationality. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Pp.

x, This valuable collection is devoted to a wide range of .