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Addiction argues that addiction should be understood not as a disease but as a phenomenon that must be understood on many levels at once. Employing a complex dynamic systems approach and philosophical methodology, Shelby explains addiction as an irreducible neurobiological, psychological, developmental, environmental, and sociological phenomenon.
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“With this book, Shelby (philosophy, Univ. of Colorado, Denver) challenges existing major perspectives on addiction and argues that current approaches to understanding it and determining treatment for it are inadequate. … Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, professionals.” (G. A. Blevins, Choice, Vol. 54 (4), December, 2016)
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About the author
Candice Shelby is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado at Denver, USA. She has published in the history of philosophy, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, and addiction, and has spoken at international venues on a variety of topics related to addiction. She is a popular lecturer in the national addictions recovery community.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Addiction
Book Subtitle: A Philosophical Perspective
Authors: Candice L. Shelby
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137552853
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-55284-6Published: 08 March 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-55285-3Published: 01 May 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 207
Topics: Metaphysics, Political Philosophy, Social Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Ethics