Stop Me Before I Kill Again: Kadri Vihvelin on Autonomy and Psychological Compulsion

In a paper that surely has one of the best titles in the history of analytic philosophy, Kadri Vihvelin argues that even addicts and kleptomaniacs are acting of their own free will. Is she right?

Kadri Vihvelin is an interesting philosopher. I often disagree with her conclusions but she writes papers I want to read because they make me think a lot harder than I would have had to otherwise.

She’s also the author of what’s surely one of the most interestingly-titled papers in the history of analytic philosophy—Stop Me Before I Kill Again (1994). Ne…