Against better judgment : akrasia in anthropological perspectives /: akrasia in anthropological perspectives. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Patrick McKearney, Nicholas H.A. Evans.
• Editors: McKearney, Patrick; Evans, Nicholas H. A
• Contents: Introduction ; Patrick McKearney and Nicholas H.A. Evans Chapter 1. Trigger Warnings: Danger, Desire, and Declensions of the Will in Eating Disorders Treatment; Rebecca J. Lester Chapter 2. Three Problems with the Addiction as Akrasia Thesis that Ethnography Can Solve; Darin Weinberg Chapter 3. To Live Like ‘People’: Drinking and Weakness of Will Among the Runa of the Ecuadorian Amazon; Francesca Mezzenzana Chapter 4. Prayer, Demons, and Akratic Sublation; Jon Bialecki Chapter 5. Troubleshooting Humans: Modelling the Pathways to Inertia, Backsliding, and Moral Transgression on Indonesia’s Hypnotherapy Circuit; Nicholas J. Long Chapter 6. The ‘Replication’ of Caste as a Form of Collective Akrasia; Ivan Deschenaux Chapter 7. Is Grit Irrational for Akratic Agents?; Lubomira Radoilska Chapter 8. Relational Akrasia: Care and the Distribution of Action; Patrick McKearney Afterword ; Richard Holton Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (260 pages)
• Subjects: 153.46; Judgment; Akrasia; Ethics
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781805390015
• Related ISBNs: 9781805390008
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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