Irrationality: An Essay on Akrasia, Self-Deception, and Self-Control

by Alfred R. Mele

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Although much human action serves as proof that irrational behaviour is remarkably common, certain forms of irrationality - most incontinent action and self-deception - pose such difficult problems that philosophers have rejected them as logically or psychologically impossible. Here, Alfred Mele shows that incontinent action and self deception are indeed possible. Philosophers; psychologists.
  • ISBN10 1423735609
  • ISBN13 9781423735601
  • Publish Date December 1992 (first published 18 June 1987)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Oxford University Press
  • Format eBook
  • Language English