Getting Out of Your Head: Addiction and the Motive of Self-Escape

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• 作者：Daniel Morgan and Lucy O' ; Brien
• 刊名：Mind & Language
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：June 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：31
• 期：3
• 页码：314-334
• 全文大小：137K
• ISSN：1468-0017

文摘

This article explores and defends the claim that addictive desires—for alcohol in particular—are partly explained by the motive of self-escape. We consider how this claim sits with the neurophysiological explanation of the strength of addictive desires in terms of the effect addictive substances have on the dopamine system. We argue that nothing in the neuroscientific framework rules out pluralism about the causes of addictive desire.