| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 195 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Agency in Mental Disorder: Philosophical Dimensions -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- 0.1 Theoretical vs. Therapeutic Perspectives -- 0.2 Framing Assumptions -- 0.3 Chapter Summaries -- 0.4 From Theory to Practice: Stigma -- References -- 1: Quality of Will and (Some) Unusual Behavior -- 1.1 How I Will Not Use the Concept "Mental Disorder" -- 1.2 The Simple Quality of Will Theory -- 1.3 Conditions Involving Epistemic Irrationality or Cognitive Impairment -- 1.4 Quality of Will and Major Depression |
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1.5 Non-excusing Psychiatric Predicaments? -- References -- 2: Disordered, Disabled, Disregarded, Dismissed: The Moral Costs of Exemptions from Accountability -- 2.1 Accountability and Interpersonality -- 2.2 The Moral Price of Exemptions -- 2.3 Applying the Medical Model: The Project of Understanding -- 2.4 Applying the Social Model: The Project of Identification -- 2.5 Interpersonal Relationships and the Accountability Community -- 2.6 Conclusion -- References -- 3: Brain Pathology and Moral Responsibility -- 3.1 Preliminaries -- 3.1.1 Why Mental Disorders or Brain Disorders Might Excuse |
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3.1.2 The Role of the Brain and the Nature of Brain Dysfunction -- 3.1.3 The Relation between Brain Pathology, Psychological Dysfunction and Moral Responsibility -- 3.2 Brain Pathology as Evidence for Mental Dysfunction -- 3.2.1 Assessing the Evidential Role-Case Studies -- 3.3 The Causal Path and the Relevanceof Changes in Psychology -- 3.3.1 Lack of Control over Acquiring Immoral Dispositions and Constitutive Moral Luck -- 3.3.2 The Effect of Psychological Change on Morally Responsible Agency -- 3.4 Conclusion -- References -- 4: Taking Control with Mechanisms of Psychotherapy |
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4.1 Moral Responsibility and Disorders of Agency -- 4.2 Therapeutic Mechanisms of Change -- 4.3 Deficits of Control Underpinning Agential Deficits of Psychopathology -- 4.4 Responding to Reasons with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy -- 4.5 Agoraphobia and Exposure Therapy -- 4.6 Personality Disorder and DialecticalBehavior Therapy -- 4.7 Concluding Remarks -- References -- 5: Legal Insanity and Moral Knowledge: Why Is a Lack of Moral Knowledge Related to a Mental Illness Exculpatory? -- 5.1 The Gap between Mental Disorder Diagnoses and Legal Insanity -- 5.1.1 The Aim of Mental Disorder Diagnoses |
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5.1.2 The Aim of the Legal Insanity Defense -- 5.1.3 The Relationship between Mental Disorder and the M'Naghten Test for Legal Insanity -- 5.2 Mental Disorder Is "Weakly Relevant" to Legal Insanity -- 5.3 The Epistemic Utility of a Mental Disorder Diagnosis -- 5.4 Conclusions -- References -- 6: Scrupulosity and Moral Responsibility -- 6.1 What Is Scrupulosity? -- 6.2 Is Scrupulosity a Mental Illness? -- 6.3 Moral Judgments -- 6.4 What Is Moral Responsibility? -- 6.5 Incompatibilist Theories of Moral Responsibility -- 6.6 Deep-Self Theories of Moral Responsibility |
| Summary |
Mental illness is an issue of great practical importance. Yet, despite sustained inquiry from scientists and philosophers alike, relatively little attention has been paid to the significance of mental disorder to agency and responsibility. While there is some work that touches on the topic, and a few extended treatments of particular disorders, these only scratch the surface. 'Agency in Mental Disorder' seeks to provide a starting point for deeper and broader philosophical analyses. The 8 new essays in this book address various questions about the relationship between agency and mental disorder. What is the nature of that relationship? In what ways do mental disorders affect capacities for control? How should we understand the mitigations of blame that mental disorders seem to provide, and can we generalize from specific disorders to any interesting claims about disorders as a class? |
| Notes |
This edition also issued in print: 2022 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Audience |
Specialized |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from home page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed October 14, 2022) |
| Subject |
Mental illness.
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Agent (Philosophy)
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Mental illness -- Social aspects
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Mental Disorders
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mental disorders.
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Agent (Philosophy)
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Mental illness
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Mental illness -- Social aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
King, Matt, editor.
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May, Joshua, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780191905278 |
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0191905275 |
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9780192639486 |
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019263948X |
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