Clean Hands
Philosophical Lessons from Scrupulosity
People with scrupulosity have rigorous, obsessive moral beliefs that lead them to perform extreme, compulsive moral acts. A waitress with this condition checks and rechecks levels of cleaners and solvents to avoid any risk of poisoning her customers. Another individual asks repeatedly whether he fasted correctly, despite swallowing his own saliva. Those with scrupulosity stretch out their prayers for hours to be sure that they have said nothing incorrectly. They worry constantly about cleanliness, sinfulness, and all the ways they could be falling short of perfection.Using a range of fascinating case studies, Jesse S. Summers and Walter Sinno…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Sinnott-Armstrong, Walter
- ISBN: 978-0-19-005871-5
- EAN: 9780190058715
- Produktnummer: 32402119
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 641 KB
Über den Autor
Jesse S. Summers is an Academic Dean in Trinity College of Arts & Sciences; Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department; and Kenan Fellow in the Kenan Institute for Ethics, at Duke University. His research focuses on philosophical issues surrounding irrationality, including rationalization, anxiety and anxiety disorders, addiction, and compulsions.Walter Sinnott-Armstrong is Chauncey Stillman Professor of Practical Ethics at Duke University in the Philosophy Department, the Kenan Institute for Ethics, the Duke Institute for Brain Science, and the Law School. He publishes widely in moral psychology and neuroscience, ethics, epistemology, argument analysis, and philosophy of religion, law, and psychiatry
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