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Anguslander writes, “There are all sorts of ways you can figure out (a) whether preventing someone from doing behavior B is likely to make them better off and (b) whether someone is doing B because he is akratic or otherwise irrational.”

The Volokh Conspiracy » Pitfalls of Paternalism 2009

There are all sorts of ways you can figure out (a) whether preventing someone from doing behavior B is likely to make them better off and (b) whether someone is doing B because he is akratic or otherwise irrational.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Pitfalls of Paternalism 2009

Davidson, as we saw, viewed akratic action as possible, but irrational.

Weakness of Will Stroud, Sarah 2008

Some tack more to the internalist side, wishing to preserve a strong internal connection between evaluation and action even at the risk of denying or seeming to deny the possibility of akratic action (or at least some understandings of it).

Weakness of Will Stroud, Sarah 2008

We can also re-examine the issue of the rationality of akrasia in light of this analysis of weakness of will; for we can distinguish between akratic and non-akratic cases of the latter.

Weakness of Will Stroud, Sarah 2008

The irrationality which is held necessarily to attach to akratic action derives from the discrepancy between what the agent judges to be the best (or better) thing to do, and what she does.

Weakness of Will Stroud, Sarah 2008

But traditionalists may say that is beside the point: however well things turn out, the practical thinking of the akratic agent still exhibits a procedural defect.

Weakness of Will Stroud, Sarah 2008

Even if akratic action is possible and indeed actual, it remains a puzzling, marginal, somehow defective instance of agency, one that we rightly find not fully intelligible.

Weakness of Will Stroud, Sarah 2008

These dissenters stress the substantive merits of the course of action the akratic agent follows.

Weakness of Will Stroud, Sarah 2008

The akratic says, at the time of action, that he ought not to indulge in this particular pleasure at this time.

Aristotle's Ethics Kraut, Richard 2007