
Against Better Judgment
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"These anthropological perspectives in akrasia do well to illustrate both the ubiquity of the phenomenon and the need to continue to collect cases of akratic human behaviour. Most normative approaches toward akrasia include aspiring toward its elimination, but collections like this give credence to the idea that akrasia is a mental phenomenon that greases the wheels of daily life." * LSE Review of Books"This volume opens up the important subject of akrasia, one that any approach to the relationship between judgment and action needs to address. It is a very welcome addition to the literature." * Michael Lambek, University of Toronto
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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
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