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Autonomy, Enactivism, and Mental Disorder A Philosophical Account

By Michelle Maiese Copyright 2023
236 Pages
by Routledge

236 Pages
by Routledge

236 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

1. Autonomous Agency: Conditions for an Adequate Account

2. An Enactivist Conception of Autonomous Agency

3. Enactivism Meets Frankfurt: Embracing, Resisting, and Reconfiguring Habits

4. Ambivalence and Agency in Dissociative Identity Disorder

5. "Getting Stuck" in Mood Disorders

6. One-Dimensional Selfhood in Psychopathy

7. Further Implications: Responsibility and Treatment

Biography

Michelle Maiese is Professor of Philosophy at Emmanuel College, USA. Her research addresses issues in philosophy of mind and philosophy of psychiatry. She has authored or co-authored four books: Embodied Minds in Action (2009), Embodiment, Emotion, and Cognition (2011), Embodied Selves and Divided Minds (2015), and The Mind–Body Politic (2019).