This book brings cutting edge neuroscience and psychology into dialogue with philosophical reflection to illuminate the loss of control experienced by addicts, and thereby cast light on ordinary agency and the way in which it sometimes goes wrong.

Table of Contents ; Contributors ; 1. Introduction: Addiction and Self-Control: Perspectives from Philosophy, Psychology and Neuroscience - Neil Levy ; 2. Money as MacGuffin: A Factor in Gambling and Other Process Addictions - George ; Ainsle ; 3. The Picoeconomics of Gambling Addiction and Supporting Neural Mechanisms - ; Don Ross ; 4. Team Reasoning, Framing and Self-Control: An Aristotelian Account - Natalie Gold ; 5. Phenomenal Authority: The Epistemic Authority of Alcoholics Anonymous - Owen ; Flanagan ; 6. Varieties of Valuation in the Normal and Addicted Brain: Legal and Policy Implications ; from a Neuroscience Perspective - Mark Walton and Nicholas Nasrallah ; 7. Are Addicts Responsible? - Walter Sinnott-Armstrong ; 8. Just Say No? Addiction and the Elements of Self-Control - Jeanette Kennett ; 9. Addiction in Context: Philosophical Lessons from a Personality Disorder Clinic - Hanna ; Pickard and Steve Pearce ; 10. Are Addicts Akratic? Interpreting the Neuroscience of Reward - Gideon Yaffe ; 11. Addiction and Blameworthiness - Timothy Schroeder and Nomy Arpaly ; 12. Addiction Between Choice and Compulsion - Richard Holton and Kent Berridge ; Index