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Thinking abouT addicTion VIBS Volume 209 Robert ginsberg Founding Editor Leonidas donskis Executive Editor Associate Editors g. John M. abbarno Matti häyry george allan Steven V. hicks gerhold k. becker Richard T. hull Raymond angelo belliotti Michael krausz kenneth a. bryson Mark Letteri c. Stephen byrum Vincent L. Luizzi harvey cormier adrianne McEvoy Robert A. Delfino Peter a. Redpath Rem b. Edwards arleen L. F. Salles Malcolm d. Evans John R. Shook daniel b. gallagher Eddy Souffrant andrew Fitz-gibbon Tuija Takala Francesc Forn i argimon Emil Višňovský William gay anne Waters dane R. gordon James R. Watson J. Everet green John R. Welch heta aleksandra gylling Thomas Woods a volume in Social Philosophy SP andrew Fitz-gibbon, Editor Thinking abouT addicTion hyperbolic discounting and Responsible agency craig hanson With a Chapter by George Ainslie amsterdam - new York, nY 2009 Cover photo: ©Morguefile.com cover design: Studio Pollmann The paper on which this book is printed meets the requirements of “iSo 9706:1994, information and documentation - Paper for documents - Requirements for permanence”. iSbn: 978-90-420-2662-9 E-book iSbn: 978-90-420-2663-6 © Editions Rodopi b.V., amsterdam - new York, nY 2009 Printed in the netherlands Social Philosophy (SP) andrew Fitz-gibbon Editor another title in SP Evgenia cherkasova, Dostoevsky and Kant: Dialogues on Ethics. 2009. VibS 206 CONTENTS Editorial Foreword vii ANDREW FITZ-GIBBON Guest Foreword: Philosophy and Addiction ix LAWRENCE ASHLEY Acknowledgments xvii O NE Philosophical Perspectives on Theories of Addiction 1 TWO Addiction from the Behavioral Economist’s Point of View 13 THREE Ainsliean Selves 31 FOUR Self-Deception 45 FIVE Toward the Rationality of Bundling 59 S IX Responsibility 75 S EVEN Responsibility in a Reductionist Model 95 GEORGE AINSLIE WORKS CITED 115 ABOUT THE AUTHORS 121 INDEX 123 EDITORIAL FOREWORD In 1998, the philosophy department at SUNY Cortland took the innovative step to create a program focused on social philosophy. The key components of the program are social and political philosophy, ethics, and applied philos- ophy. In 2007, following the successful implementation of the program, the department formed the Center for Ethics Peace and Social Justice to extend the outreach of philosophy through publications, conferences, and a summer ethics institute for faculty, and philosophical practice and activism. As part of that outreach, we are delighted to co-sponsor a VIBS series in social philosophy. Craig Hanson’s Thinking about Addiction: Hyperbolic Discounting and Responsible Agency is the second in the series. Hanson’s book is a creative, and at times controversial, exploration of behavioral and economic models of addiction. It will be of interest to those considering philosophical accounts of addiction and those who want to recon- sider moral responsibility and agency. Andrew Fitz-Gibbon Associate Professor in Philosophy Director, Center for Ethics, Peace and Social Justice State University of New York College at Cortland and VIBS Social Philosophy Special Series Editor
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