Clean hands? : philosophical lessons from scrupulosity /
People with scrupulosity have rigorous, obsessive moral beliefs that lead them to perform extreme, compulsive moral acts. A waitress with this condition checks and rechecks levels of cleaners and solvents to avoid any risk of poisoning her customers. Another individual asks repeatedly whether he fas...
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Cases
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder
- Scrupulosity as a form of OCD
- Mental illness
- Character and virtue
- Moral judgments
- Responsibility
- Treatment.