Levy Neil
Oxford Centre for Neuroethics and Florey Neuroscience Institutes.
Philos Phenomenol Res. 2011 Jan;82(1):134-155. doi: 10.1111/j.1933-1592.2010.00424.x.
I develop an account of weakness of the will that is driven by experimental evidence from cognitive and social psychology. I will argue that this account demonstrates that there is no such thing as weakness of the will: no psychological kind corresponds to it. Instead, weakness of the will ought to be understood as depletion of System II resources. Neither the explanatory purposes of psychology nor our practical purposes as agents are well-served by retaining the concept. I therefore suggest that we ought to jettison it, in favour of the vocabulary and concepts of cognitive psychology.
我基于认知和社会心理学的实验证据,阐述了一种关于意志薄弱的观点。我将论证,这种观点表明不存在意志薄弱这回事:没有与之对应的心理类别。相反,意志薄弱应被理解为系统二资源的耗尽。保留这个概念既不利于心理学的解释目的,也不符合我们作为行动者的实际目的。因此,我建议我们摒弃它,转而采用认知心理学的词汇和概念。