Akrasia and traitors
Abstract Bar Luzon argues that akrasia is irrational because it leads to violating a principle called Avoid Treachery. In response, I argue that Avoid Treachery is insufficiently motivated, that it presupposes a picture of rational inference that defenders of akrasia have independent reason to reject, and that there are models in which Avoid Treachery is false.
Authors
- Brian Weatherson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0830-141X)
Institutions
- University of Michigan (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- The Philosophical Quarterly
- Published
- 2025-07-24
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqaf062
- Primary Topic
- Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00