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Talking to Our Selves by John M. Doris, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

From John M. Doris

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Talking to Our Selves by John M. Doris, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
Talking to Our Selves by John M. Doris, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Indigo

Talking to Our Selves by John M. Doris, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

From John M. Doris

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John M. Doris presents a new account of agency and responsibility, which reconciles our understanding of ourselves as moral agents with psychological research on the unconscious mind. Much philosophical theorizing maintains that the exercise of morally responsible agency consists in judgmentand behavior ordered by accurate reflection. On such theories, when human beings are able to direct their lives in the manner philosophers have dignified with the honorific "agency", it's because they know what they're doing, and why they're doing it. This understanding is compromised by quantitiesof psychological research on unconscious processing, which suggests that accurate reflection is distressingly uncommon; very often behavior is ordered by surprisingly inaccurate self-awareness. Thus, if agency requires accurate reflection, people seldom exercise agency, and skepticism about agencythreatens. To counter the skeptical threat, John M. Doris proposes an alternative theory that requires neither reflection nor accurate self-awareness: he identifies a dialogic form of agency where self-direction is facilitated by exchange of the rationalizations with which people explain and justify themselvesto one another. The result is a stoutly interdisciplinary theory sensitive to both what human beings are like - creatures with opaque and unruly psychologies - and what they need: an account of agency sufficient to support a practice of moral responsibility. | Talking to Our Selves by John M. Doris, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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