Madness and Reason

ISBN-13: 9780367500054 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 184 str.

Jennifer Radden

Opis

Originally published in 1985, this book provides a philosophical analysis of the concepts of madness and moral responsibility. It challenges the view that because they are victims of mental illness, the insane should not be blamed for actions resulting from their condition.

Spis treści

1. Madness and Moral Responsibility 2. A Disease Model of Madness 3. Diseases as Excuses for Wrongdoing 4. Madness as Unreason 5. Irrationality and Unreasonableness 6. Hallucination and Thought Disorder 7. Paranoid Delusion and Affective Disorder 8. Deviance and Defect 9. The Legal Tradition: Exculpating Ignorance and Compulsion 10. Exculpating Unreason in Children 11. The Insanity Plea

O autorze

Jennifer Radden is Professor emerita of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.