Date of Award
Spring 1997
Document Type
Dissertation - Restricted
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department
Philosophy
First Advisor
Teske, Roland
Second Advisor
Goldin, Owen
Third Advisor
Twetten, David
Abstract
Weakness of the will seems to be a phenomenon that many of us have experienced. It is often defined by philosophers, e.g., Aristotle and others, as "the moral state of agents who act against their better judgment." We judge, according to our knowledge, that we should do a certain act, but due to some reason we choose to act against our judgment. Many believe that akratic choices are obviously possible, although some philosophers, from antiquity to the modern times, have denied that akratic choices actually occur...
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