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Agency in Mental Disorder

Philosophical Dimensions

Herausgeber: King, Matt; May, Joshua

Beschreibung

This volume seeks to provide a starting point for deeper and broader philosophical analyses of mental illness. It addresses various questions about the relationship between agency and mental disorder.

Autor

Matt King is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland and has held previous appointments at Carleton College, Virginia Tech, and UCLA. His main research is on theories of agency and responsibility, as well as related topics in ethics and the law. His work has appeared in Ethics, Philosophical Studies, Criminal Law and Philosophy, and Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility. Joshua May is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He previously taught at Monash University in Australia after receiving his Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research aims to understand the development, breakdown, and improvement of moral knowledge and virtue. His book Regard for Reason in the Moral Mind (OUP 2018) draws on scientific evidence to show that ethical thought and action are fundamentally rational enterprises. Articles of his have appeared in the Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Behavioral & Brain Sciences, Cognition, Journal of Medical Ethics, Neuroethics, Philosophical Studies, and Synthese.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 147mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 372g
• ISBN-13: 9780198868811
• ISBN-10: 0198868812
• Artikelnr.: 64082189