Rationality and Compulsion: Applying Action Theory to Psychiatry

by Lennart Nordenfelt

Book Overview

Rationality and Compulsion presents a unique examination of mental illness - derived from philosophical action theory. Delusion is common to many mental disorders, resulting in actions that, though perhaps rational to the individual, might seem entirely inappropriate or harmful to others. So what is it that causes these actions, and why do they continue? The theory expounded in this book shows how the key to this problem might be compulsion.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199214859
• ISBN13: 9780199214853
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.6" x 9.2"