TY - JOUR
T1 - Rational Akrasia
JF - Organon F
Y1 - 2013
A1 - Brunero, John
KW - Akrasia
KW - Audi
KW - Broome
KW - enkrateia
KW - Enkratic Requirement
KW - rational requirements
KW - rationality
AB - It is commonly thought that one is irrationally akratic when one believes one ought to F but does not intend to F. However, some philosophers, following Robert Audi, have argued that it is sometimes rational to have this combination of attitudes. I here consider the question of whether rational akrasia is possible. I argue that those arguments for the possibility of rational akrasia advanced by Audi and others do not succeed. Specifically, I argue that cases in which an akratic agent acts as he has most reason to act, and cases in which an akratic agent achieves a kind of global coherence he wouldn’t have achieved had he instead formed intentions in line with his best judgment, do not establish the possibility of rational akrasia. However, I do think that rational akrasia is possible, and I present two arguments for this thesis. The first argument involves a case in which one is incapable of revising one’s belief about what one ought to do, where one also acknowledges this belief to be insufficiently supported by the evidence. The second argument involves a case in which one rationally believes that one ought to have an akratic combination of attitudes.
IS - 4
VL - 20
SP - 546-566
UR - http://www.klemens.sav.sk/fiusav/doc/organon/2013/4/546-566.pdf
U2 - Articles
U3 - 546566
TI - Rational Akrasia
ER -