Knowing Better by Eunice Belgum

Knowing Better by Eunice Belgum

Originally published in 1990, this book deals with the question of akrasia, weakness of will, or knowing better but doing worse. Versions of this principle are presupposed by Socrates and Plato, articulated as the 'practical syllogism' in Aristotle and play a central role in modern decision theory.

 

Eunice Belgum was born in 1946 in Brooklyn, New York, where she lived for ten years until her family moved to Fargo, North Dakota. She did her undergraduate work at St. Olaf College in Minnesota, spending her senior year at Oxford, after which she proceeded to graduate work in philosophy at Harvard. From 1974 until1976, she taught at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and then at the College of William and Mary in Virginia, until her death.

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ISBN 13	9780367476441
ISBN 10	0367476444
Title	Knowing Better
Author	Eunice Belgum
Series	Routledge Library Editions: Ethics
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Routledge
Year published	2022-06-01
Number of pages	252
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