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Failures of rationality and self-knowledge in addiction
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Crowther, Thomas (2017) Failures of rationality and self-knowledge in addiction. In: Heather, Nick and Segal, Gabriel, (eds.) Addiction and Choice : Rethinking the relationship. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 82-98. ISBN 9780198727224
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Abstract
The focus of this chapter is the account of akrasia in alcoholism suggested by the Alcoholics Anonymous literature. The chapter begins by sketching out this account of akrasia. It then goes on to raise a number of questions about this account. It attempts to resolve these questions in terms of the idea that alcoholic relapse involves a dis- order of mental state. Various features of alcoholic action and thought in relapse are traced to characteristic features of this state. The chapter develops the idea that such states as “obsession with alcohol” are malformed varieties of the normal condition of wakefulness, and that aspects of the disorder involved in alcoholism can be explained in terms of this relation.
Item Type: | Book Item | ||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Philosophy | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Alcoholism -- Psychological aspects, Alcoholics, Alcoholics Anonymous, Consciousness | ||||
Publisher: | Oxford University Press | ||||
Place of Publication: | Oxford | ||||
ISBN: | 9780198727224 | ||||
Book Title: | Addiction and Choice : Rethinking the relationship | ||||
Editor: | Heather, Nick and Segal, Gabriel | ||||
Official Date: | 22 September 2017 | ||||
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Page Range: | pp. 82-98 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 22 March 2017 | ||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 22 September 2019 | ||||
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