Self-control in action and belief

Orlandi, Martina; Stroud, Sarah

doi:10.1080/13869795.2021.1908576

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“…A common view is therefore that temptation implies, in addition to wanting, that one believes that what one wants is somehow wrong ( Day, 1993 ). As Orlandi and Stroud put this point, temptation always involves some form of ambivalence on the part of the tempted individual: it implies that her actions, choices or decisions are “influenced by a factor whose influence she rejects” ( Orlandi and Stroud, 2021 , p. 228). This is why temptation can be said to be the occasion for the exercise of what may be called reflective self-control .…”

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Addiction and autonomy: Why emotional dysregulation in addiction impairs autonomy and why it matters

Henden¹

2023

Front. Psychol.

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An important philosophical issue in the study of addiction is what difference the fact that a person is addicted makes to attributions of autonomy (and responsibility) to their drug-oriented behavior. In spite of accumulating evidence suggesting the role of emotional dysregulation in understanding addiction, it has received surprisingly little attention in the debate about this issue. I claim that, as a result, an important aspect of the autonomy impairment of many addicted individuals has been largely overlooked. A widely shared assumption in the philosophical literature is that for addiction to impair a person’s autonomy it has to make them (in some sense) take drugs against their will. So-called “willing addicts” are therefore usually seen as exempted from the autonomy impairment believed to characterize “unwilling addicts,” the latter being those who “truly want” to stop using drugs but find their attempts repeatedly derailed by failures of self-control. In this article, I argue that the association between addiction and emotional dysregulation shows why this assumption is false. Emotional dysregulation is not only consistent with the possibility that many addicts take drugs “willingly,” it supports the hypothesis that they use drugs because they truly want to. The article proposes an explanation for why emotional dysregulation should nevertheless be seen as an aspect of their loss of control and an important reason why they have impaired autonomy. I end by exploring some implications of this account for addict’s decision-making capacity when they are prescribed the drugs to which they are addicted.

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Section: Autonomy Addiction and Temptationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Addiction and autonomy: Why emotional dysregulation in addiction impairs autonomy and why it matters

Henden¹

2023

Front. Psychol.

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Self-control in action and belief

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Addiction and autonomy: Why emotional dysregulation in addiction impairs autonomy and why it matters

Addiction and autonomy: Why emotional dysregulation in addiction impairs autonomy and why it matters

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