In 490 BC, the Persian Army landed on the plain of Marathon, 25 miles from Athens. The
Athenians sent a messenger named Feidipides to Sparta to ask for help. He ran the 150 …

Recent research suggests that romantic love can be literally addictive. Although the exact
nature of the relationship between love and addiction has been described in inconsistent …

Philosophers and psychologists have been attracted to two differing accounts of addictive
motivation. In this paper, we investigate these two accounts and challenge their mutual claim …

It is often claimed that the autonomy of heroin addicts is compromised when they are
choosing between taking their drug of addiction and abstaining. This is the basis of claims …

Among medical researchers and clinicians the dominant view is that it is unethical to
deceive patients by prescribing a placebo. This opinion is formalized in a recent policy …

For much of the twentieth century, theories of addictive behavior and motivation were
polarized between two models. The first model viewed addiction as a moral failure for which …

The case of Caster Semenya provides a vivid illustration of the ways in which natural genetic
variation can generate large differences in athletic performance. But since we normally …

Philosophers have been writing about addiction continually since the 1990s, and a number
of much older, broader philosophical theories are of direct relevance to the study of …

abstract Criminal behaviour is but one behavioural tendency for which a genetic influence
has been suggested. Whilst this research certainly raises difficult ethical questions and is …

Our commentary offers a reductive account of addiction as pleasure-seeking. Hyman (2007)
sees two extremes in the addiction debate: views that conceptualize addiction as a brain …