The makings of a responsible addict -- Drug addiction as incentive sensitization -- Free will as recursive self-prediction : does a deterministic mechanism reduce responsibility? -- Addiction, responsibility, and ego depletion -- Lowering the bar for addicts -- Decision-making capacity and responsibility in addiction -- Addiction and criminal responsibility -- Grounding for understanding self-injury as addiction or (bad) habit -- Contingency management treatments of drug and alcohol use disorders -- Addiction, paradox, and the good I would -- What is it like to be an addict?
Summary:
This book deals with the intertwining of addiction and responsibility in personal, philosophical, legal, research, and clinical contexts. Addictive behavior threatens not just the addict's happiness and health but also the welfare and well-being of others. It represents a loss of self-control and a variety of other cognitive impairments and behavioral deficits. An addict may say, "I couldn't help myself." But questions arise: are we responsible for our addictions? And what responsibilities do others have to help us? This volume offers a range of perspectives on addiction and responsibility and how the two are bound together. Two essays, written by scholars who were themselves addicts, attempt to integrate first-person phenomenological accounts with the third-person perspective of the sciences. Contributors distinguish among moral responsibility, legal responsibility, and the ethical responsibility of clinicians and researchers. Taken together, the essays offer a forceful argument that we cannot fully understand addiction if we do not also understand responsibility.
Series:
Philosophical psychopathology : disorders of the mind
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