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action theory
Agent Judges
akrasia
Akratic Act
Aristotle
Author_Eunice Belgum
Categorical Prediction
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Chocolate Eclairs
classical philosophy
Covering Law
Davidson Claims
Davidson's Account
decision theory
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Functional Explanation
General Practice Contexts
Goldman's Account
Goldman's Theory
Good General Theory
Intentional Entities
Logical Relations
moral psychology
Non-basic Acts
Ordinary Causal Explanation
philosophical methodology
philosophy of ethics
Plato
Practical Judgment
practical reasoning
Practical Syllogism
Prima Facie Judgments
psychological explanation of weakness of will
rationality of morals
Socrates
Socratic Skepticism
Suitable Goal
Teleological Explanation
Token Materialism
Unconditional Judgment
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780367476441
- Weight: 470g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jun 2022
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Originally published in 1990, this book deals with the question of akrasia, weakness of will, or knowing better but doing worse. Versions of this principle are presupposed by Socrates and Plato, articulated as the ‘practical syllogism’ in Aristotle and play a central role in modern decision theory. The book considers the psychological explanation for this and different responses to the problem. The work is of interest not only as a piece of classical scholarship, action theory and moral psychology, but as a piece of meta-philosophy, and the philosophy about the methodology of philosophical disputes. It has enduring relevance as the problem of akrasia continues to be the object of much philosophical argument.
Eunice Belgum was born in 1946 in Brooklyn, New York, where she lived for ten years until her family moved to Fargo, North Dakota. She did her undergraduate work at St. Olaf College in Minnesota, spending her senior year at Oxford, after which she proceeded to graduate work in philosophy at Harvard. From 1974 until1976, she taught at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and then at the College of William and Mary in Virginia, until her death.
