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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"akrasia"”.
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Epistemic levels
… second chapter, I take up the topic of epistemic akrasia-the state of believing some proposition P, while believing that one oughtn't believe that P. While many take for granted that epistemic akrasia is always irrational (and least implicitly endorse a level-bridging principle in the process), …
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Rational Capacities and the Practice of Blame: A Skeptical Argument
… agent cannot be blameworthy for a given act if akrasia does not occur somewhere in the act's etiology. This serves as the first major premise in my skeptical argument. Next, I turn to the second major premise of my argument, which is comprised of two controversial claims. The first is that …
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ARISTOTELIAN-INSPIRED MODEL FOR CURTAILING ACADEMIC DISHONESTY IN THE UNITED STATES
… parts. Chapter one responds to the problem of akrasia, adopting a modified version of Devin Henry's distinction between drunken akrasia and genuine akrasia, holding that the akratic individual experiences an internal struggle similar to that of the self-controlled individual, but the improper …
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Evidence as a guide to truth
… literature. In the first chapter, "Epistemic Akrasia", I argue that it is irrational to believe both P and my evidence does not support P. I show that epistemic akrasia licenses bad reasoning and irrational action. The second chapter "Immoderately Rational", brings out a surprisingly strong …
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Hypocrisy in Rival Traditions: A Dialogue Between Matthew and Epictetus
… relation to righteousness, the Law, heart, akrasia, and that hypocrisy in Matthew ultimately results from a failure to hear and obey Jesus Christ. After introducing the issue and my thesis in chapter 1, chapter 2 surveys the history of research, and chapter 3 outline this dissertation’s …
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The nature of temptation and its role in the development of moral virtue: an exploration in analytic moral theology
… with the closely related moral phenomenon of akrasia and weakness of will, and finally interfaced with a neo- Aristotelian conception of virtue development. In the end, Thomas Aquinas’s understanding of infused virtue is employed as a theological test of the thesis and conditions the scope of …
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Responsibility for Self: Agency and the Attitudes
This thesis defends the claim that the core idea of moral responsibility is fixed by our best theory of agency. Such a theory concerns the proper conditions of attribution of an attitude or an action to an agent for the purposes of moral appraisal – or what I call the rational relations view. The …
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Beyond Enlightenment: The Evolution of Agency and the Modularity of the Mind in a Post-Darwinian World
<p>Working out of the social and philosophical revolutions from the Enlightenment, contemporary action theory has unwittingly inherited several Cartesian ideas regarding the human mind: that it is unified, rational, and transparent. As a result, we have for too long conceived of action as …
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Imaginative Simulation in the Moral Life
“Imaginative simulation” refers to our capacity to create, in our mind’s eye and in our bodies, perceptual and experiential states that feel as-if we were encountering those states in reality (such as when we vividly remember certain events from our lives, project ourselves into the first-personal …
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The Divided Self: Internal Conflict in Literature, Philosophy, Psychology, and Neuroscience
<p>This thematic project examines the notion of self-division, particularly in terms of the conflict between cognition and metacognition, across the fields of philosophy, psychology, and, most recently, the cognitive and neurosciences. The project offers a historic overview of models of …