Donald Davidson’s causal theory of action greatly influenced a dominant analytic interpretation the argument, in Republic 4, for parts soul. According to Davidson, actions are caused by combination belief and desire (pro-attitude). In inspired this account, soul have distinctive beliefs desires, which cause action; thus, distinct agents. As well, argument 4 is taken show that, while reason desi...

Epistemologists take themselves to disagree about whether there are situations where it is rational for one believe that p and one’s evidence does not support (rational akrasia). The embedded sentence ‘one’s p’ can be interpreted in two ways, however, depending on what the semantic contribution of evidence’ taken be. ‘One’s might seen as a sheer indexical or descriptive singular term. first int...

Akrasia has been traditionally defined as a failure to do what one has most reasons to do, or what one judges that one ought to do (McIntyre 2006; Wedgwood 2007). Traditional conceptions on akrasia take it as a violation of a commitment of the agent: “[for traditional conceptions] an agent who decisively judges it best to A is thereby rationally committed to A-ing, in the sense that (as long as...

Abstract Akrasia, otherwise known as ‘weakness of will’, is a state mind whereby people act deliberately against their better judgment. This paper aims to provide conceptual framework for understanding akrasia from psychosocial perspectives that assume the self multiple and strongly interconnected with relational flow which it part. Drawing on key ideas Dialogical Self Theory, we analyze main d...

, © Velleman This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and redistribution in any medium, provided that the original author and source are credited. In his 1970 paper “How is Weakness of the Will Possible?” Donald Davidson introduced his solution to the philosophical problem of akrasia ...