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Autonomy, Enactivism, and Mental Disorder - A Philosophical Account (Hardcover)
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Autonomy, Enactivism, and Mental Disorder - A Philosophical Account (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
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This book brings together insights from the enactivist approach in
philosophy of mind and existing work on autonomous agency from both
philosophy of action and feminist philosophy. It then utilizes this
proposed account of autonomous agency to make sense of the
impairments in agency that commonly occur in cases of dissociative
identity disorder, mood disorders, and psychopathy. While much of
the existing philosophical work on autonomy focuses on threats that
come from outside the agent, this book addresses how inner
conflict, instability of character, or motivational issues can
disrupt agency. In the first half of the book, the author
conceptualizes what it means to be self-governing and to exercise
autonomous agency. In the second half, she investigates the extent
to which agents with various forms of mental disorder are capable
of exercising autonomy. In her view, many forms of mental disorder
involve disruptions to self-governance, so that agents lack
sufficient control over their intentional behavior or are unable to
formulate and execute coherent action plans. However, this does not
mean that they are utterly incapable of autonomous agency; rather,
their ability to exercise this capacity is compromised in important
respects. Understanding these agential impairments can help to
deepen our understanding of what it means to exercise autonomy, and
also devise more effective treatments that restore subjects'
agency. Autonomy, Enactivism, and Mental Disorder will be of
interest to researchers and advanced students working in philosophy
of mind, philosophy of action, philosophy of psychiatry, and
feminist philosophy.
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