Addiction

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.

• Addiction
• recovery
• treatment
• complex dynamic systems
• psychology
• philosophy of mind
• addiction
• phenomenology
• philosophy
• Philosophy of Mind

“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)

• University of Colorado Denver, USA

  Candice L. Shelby

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.

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