Getting Hooked: Rationality and Addiction
The essays in this volume offer the most thorough and up-to-date discussion available of the relationship between addiction and rationality. This is the only book-length treatment of the subject and includes contributions from philosophers, psychiatrists, neurobiologists, sociologists, and economists. In tackling the critical issue of voluntary self-destructive behavior from many perspectives, the book will be an important resource for philosophers, psychologists, psychiatrists, economists,...
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Essays offering a thorough discussion of the relationship between addiction and rationality.
Preface and AcknowledgmentsContributorsIntroduction1Addiction and Social Interaction30Addiction, Weakness of the Will, and Relapse47The Dangers of Willpower65The Neurobiology of Chemical Addiction93To Legalize or Not to Legalize: Is That the Question?137Rationality, Irrationality, and Addiction - Notes on Becker's and Murphy's Theory of Addiction173Gambling and Addiction208A Visceral Account of Addiction235Epilogue: Rationally Coping with Lapses from Rationality265Index285
