Irrationality
An Essay on Akrasia, Self-Deception, and Self-Control
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10697339 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marcia L Homiak, Alfred R Mele (0000-0002-4988-1027) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 100 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 122 |
| Publication date | 1991-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Philosophical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8108 • E-ISSN: 1558-1470 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2185521 |
| OpenAlex | W1990394878 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 42 |
Although much human action serves as proof that irrational behaviour is remarkably common, certain forms of irrationality - most incontinent action and self-deception - pose such difficult problems that philosophers have rejected them as logically or psychologically impossible. Here, Alfred Mele shows that incontinent action and self deception are indeed possible. Philosophers; psychologists
Deception · Epistemology · Irrationality · Rationality · Self-control · Self-deception · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science · Psychological Treatments and Assessments · Psychology · Social Psychology
Art and Intention
Deliberating trade-offs with the future
Social Influence by Manipulation
Philosophical Questions about the Nature of Willpower
Aesthetic Corrigibility
Self‐deception as Pretense
Agency Implies Weakness of Will
Phenomenologies of the Akratic Self
Violence and the politics of black male identity in post-modern America
System design effects on online impulse buying
Approaching self-deception
Self-control and normativity
Konsens und Gewalt. Zur handlungstheoretischen Modellierung sozialer Mechanismen der Normentstehung
Augustinian Anthropology
Vulnerability and the Sovereign Individual
Socio-economic status, delay of gratification, and impulse buying
Recent Work on Addiction and Responsible Agency
Anthony Trollope on Akrasia, Self-Deception, and Ethical Confusion
User-Friendly Self-Deception
Beliefs and responsibility
An Appraisal of Psychological & Religious Perspectives of Self-control
Moral hypocrisy
Speculations on a Privileged State of Cognitive Dissonance
Reconceptualizing Intelligence
An Exchange
Faiblesse de la raison ou faiblesse de volonté
Mastering Self-Control
Hoc quod uolo / me nolle
Commanding Constantia in Senecan Tragedy
Is Synchronic Self-Control Possible
Akratic Action under the Guise of the Good
The Possibility of Philosophy of Action
Reflective and Impulsive Determinants of Social Behavior
Film and the new psychology
Non-psychological weakness of will
Self-deception and belief attribution
Akrasia, instincts and revealed preferences
Self-control and the self
John Buridan and Donald Davidson onakrasia
The skill of self-control
Moral hypocrisy
Self-Deception and Confabulation
| Unique citing works | 42 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,2 |
| Citation span | 1991 - 2021 (31) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |