Addiction and responsibility
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Addiction and responsibility
(Philosophical psychopathology : disorders in mind / Owen Flanagan and George Graham, editors)
MIT Press, c2011
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"In 2007 we began thinking that this would be a good set of questions to pursue in a special session or colloquium of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology (Spp) at its annual meeting in 2008 ... A colloquium on the eventual topic of this book then took place ... at the University of Pennsylvania" -- Pref
Includes bibliographical references and index
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The intertwining of addiction and responsibility in personal, philosophical, legal, research, and clinical contexts.
Addictive behavior threatens not just the addict's happiness and health but also the welfare and well-being of others. It represents a loss of self-control and a variety of other cognitive impairments and behavioral deficits. An addict may say, "I couldn't help myself." But questions arise: are we responsible for our addictions? And what responsibilities do others have to help us? This volume offers a range of perspectives on addiction and responsibility and how the two are bound together. Distinguished contributors-from theorists to clinicians, from neuroscientists and psychologists to philosophers and legal scholars-discuss these questions in essays using a variety of conceptual and investigative tools.
Some contributors offer models of addiction-related phenomena, including theories of incentive sensitization, ego-depletion, and pathological affect; others address such traditional philosophical questions as free will and agency, mind-body, and other minds. Two essays, written by scholars who were themselves addicts, attempt to integrate first-person phenomenological accounts with the third-person perspective of the sciences. Contributors distinguish among moral responsibility, legal responsibility, and the ethical responsibility of clinicians and researchers. Taken together, the essays offer a forceful argument that we cannot fully understand addiction if we do not also understand responsibility.
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