Anthropologists have long explained social behaviour as if people always do what they think is best. But what if most of these explanations only work because they are premised upon ignoring what philosophers call ’akrasia’ – that is, the possibility that people might act against their better judgment? The contributors to this volume turn an ethnographic lens upon situations in which people seem to act out of line with what they judge, desire and intend. The result is a robust examination of how people around the world experience weaknesses of will, which speaks to debates in both the anthropology of ethics and moral philosophy.
Innehållsförteckning
Introduction
Patrick Mc Kearney 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 Mc Kearney
Afterword
Richard Holton
Index
Om författaren
Nicholas H. A. Evans is a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics and author of Far From the Caliph’s Gaze: Being Ahmadi Muslim in the Holy City of Qadian (Cornell University Press, 2020).
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