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Author:   Patrick McKearney ,  Nicholas H. A. Evans
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
ISBN:  

9781805390008

ISBN 10:   1805390007
Pages:   260
Publication Date:   09 June 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

Introduction Patrick McKearney and Nicholas H.A. Evans Chapter 1. Trigger Warnings: Danger, Desire, and Declensions of the Will in Eating Disorders Treatment Rebecca J. Lester Chapter 2. Three Problems with the Addiction as Akrasia Thesis that Ethnography Can Solve Darin Weinberg Chapter 3. To Live Like 'People': Drinking and Weakness of Will Among the Runa of the Ecuadorian Amazon Francesca Mezzenzana Chapter 4. Prayer, Demons, and Akratic Sublation Jon Bialecki Chapter 5. Troubleshooting Humans: Modelling the Pathways to Inertia, Backsliding, and Moral Transgression on Indonesia's Hypnotherapy Circuit Nicholas J. Long Chapter 6. The 'Replication' of Caste as a Form of Collective Akrasia Ivan Deschenaux Chapter 7. Is Grit Irrational for Akratic Agents? Lubomira Radoilska Chapter 8. Relational Akrasia: Care and the Distribution of Action Patrick McKearney Afterword Richard Holton Index

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This volume opens up the important subject of akrasia, one that any approach to the relationship between judgment and action needs to address. It is a very welcome addition to the literature. * Michael Lambek, University of Toronto

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Patrick McKearney is an Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam conducting research in the UK, India, and Italy. His recent articles on disability, care, ethics, and religion include publications in Social Analysis, Ethnos, and JRAI. He has also edited two special issues on cognitive disability in The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology and Medical Anthropology.

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