Irrationality: An Essay on Akrasia, Self-deception, and Self-control
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.Author's Profile
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B824.2.M45 1987
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9780195080018 0195080017 0195043219
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10.2307/2185521
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Free will and luck: Reply to critics.Alfred R. Mele - 2007 - Philosophical Explorations 10 (2):153 – 155.
