Irrationality: an essay on akrasia, self-deception, and self-control

Oxford: Oxford University Press (1987)
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The author demonstrates that certain forms of irrationality - incontinent action and self-deception - which many philosophers have rejected as being logically or psychologically impossible, are indeed possible.

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B824.2.M45 1987

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0195043219   0195080017

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10.2307/2185521
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Alfred Mele
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