Addiction and Responsibility Contributor(s): Poland, Jeffrey (Editor), Graham, George (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0262015501 ISBN-13: 9780262015509 Publisher: MIT Press OUR PRICE: $44.55 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2011 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy - Psychology | Psychopathology - Addiction - Philosophy | Free Will & Determinism |
Dewey: 178 |
LCCN: 2010040931 |
Series: Philosophical Psychopathology: Disorders of the Mind |
Physical Information: 0.81" H x 6.23" W x 9.07" (1.08 lbs) 320 pages |
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Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Graham, George: - George Graham is a Professor of Philosophy and Neuroscience at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia.Poland, Jeffrey: - Jeffrey Poland is Visiting Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Brown University and a Senior Lecturer in History, Philosophy, and Social Science at Rhode Island School of Design. He is the coeditor of Addiction and Responsibility (MIT Press).Flanagan, Owen: - Owen Flanagan is James B. Duke Professor of Philosophy at Duke University. He is the author of Consciousness Reconsidered and The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World, both published by the MIT Press, and other books. |