Contents
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction / Jon Elster
Part I. Philosophical Perspectives on Addiction
Chapter 1. Disordered Appetites: Addiction, Compulsion, and Dependence / Gary Watson
Chapter 2. Freedom of the Will and Addiction / Olav Gjelsvik
Part II. The Neurobiology of Addiction
Chapter 3. The Neurobiology and Genetics of Addiction: Implications of the "Reward Deficiency Syndrome" for Therapeutic Strategies in Chemical Dependency / Eliot L. Gardner
Chapter 4. Addiction as Impeded Rationality / Helge Waal and Jorg Morland
Part III. Addiction, Choice, and Self-Control
Chapter 5. Hyperbolic Discounting, Willpower, and Addiction / Ole-Jorgen Skog
Chapter 6. Addiction and Self-Control / Ted O'Donoghue and Matthew Rabin
Part IV. Addiction and Motivation
Chapter 7. The Intuitive Explanation of Passionate Mistakes and Why It's Not Adequate / George Ainslie
Chapter 8. Emotion and Addiction: Neurobiology, Culture, and Choice / Jon Elster
Part V. Addiction and Culture
Chapter 9. Addicts as Objects of Study: Clinical Encounters in the 1920s / Caroline Jean Acker
Index