Addiction and Self-Control
The Mechanisms of Self-Control: Lessons from Addiction
May 13-14 2010, University of Oxford
Loss of control over some aspects of behavior is usually held to be a defining feature of addiction. But the loss of control envisaged is somewhat mysterious. The series of actions in which addicts engage in order to procure and consume their drug is not reflexive; should it nevertheless be properly seen as uncontrolled? What mechanisms are impaired in the addict’s behavior, and how can those impairments illuminate normal agency? This conference will bring together leading thinkers in neuroscience, psychology, psychiatry and philosophy to explore and advance our understanding of the mechanisms of self-control and the way in which they are weakened in addiction.
Main Speakers:
George Ainslie (Coatesville Veterans Affairs Medical Center)
Nomy Arpaly (Brown Univeristy).
Kent Berridge (Michigan University)
Richard Holton (MIT)
Steven Hyman (Harvard)
Mark Muraven (SUNY Albany)
Steve Pearce (Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Mental Health Trust)
Hanna Pickard (All Souls College, Oxford)
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Duke University)
Gideon Yaffe (University of Southern California).
To register for this conference, please click here
May 13-14 2010, University of Oxford
Loss of control over some aspects of behavior is usually held to be a defining feature of addiction. But the loss of control envisaged is somewhat mysterious. The series of actions in which addicts engage in order to procure and consume their drug is not reflexive; should it nevertheless be properly seen as uncontrolled? What mechanisms are impaired in the addict’s behavior, and how can those impairments illuminate normal agency? This conference will bring together leading thinkers in neuroscience, psychology, psychiatry and philosophy to explore and advance our understanding of the mechanisms of self-control and the way in which they are weakened in addiction.
Main Speakers:
George Ainslie (Coatesville Veterans Affairs Medical Center)
Nomy Arpaly (Brown Univeristy).
Kent Berridge (Michigan University)
Richard Holton (MIT)
Steven Hyman (Harvard)
Mark Muraven (SUNY Albany)
Steve Pearce (Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Mental Health Trust)
Hanna Pickard (All Souls College, Oxford)
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Duke University)
Gideon Yaffe (University of Southern California).
To register for this conference, please click here