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Agency in Mental Disorder: Philosophical Dimensions
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.
| Author(s) | Edited by Matt King (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Alabama at Birmingham), Joshua May (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Alabama at Birmingham). |
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| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Format | Hardback |
| Pages | 208 |
| Published in | United Kingdom |
| Published | 4 Mar 2022 |
| Availability | Available |
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.
Preface 0: Matt King & Joshua May: Introduction 1: Nomy Arpaly: Quality of Will and (Some) Unusual Behavior 2: David Shoemaker: Disordered, Disabled, Disregarded, Dismissed: The Moral Costs of Exemptions from Accountability 3: Anneli Jefferson: Brain
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 theor
