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    Supports→An agent can act akratically because she is 'charmed' by some aspect of the less good option, causing her to choose what she knows to be worse overall.

    An agent can be charmed by a feature of the less good option even while cognitively recognizing it is worse.

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    Both Martha Nussbaum (1986) and David Wiggins (1980) have argued for pluralism on the grounds that only pluralism can explain akrasia, or weakness of will. An agent is said to suffer from weakness of will when she knowingly chooses a less good option over a better one. On the face of it, this is a puzzling thing to do—why would someone knowingly do what they know to be worse? A pluralist has a plausible answer—when the choice is between two different sorts of value, the agent is preferring A to

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