Self-Control, Decision Theory, and Rationality
New Essays
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- Editor: José Luis Bermúdez, Texas A & M University
- Date Published: April 2021
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108413015
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Thinking about self-control takes us to the heart of practical decision-making, human agency, motivation, and rational choice. Psychologists, philosophers, and decision theorists have all brought valuable insights and perspectives on how to model self-control, on different mechanisms for achieving and strengthening self-control, and on how self-control fits into the overall cognitive and affective economy. Yet these different literatures have remained relatively insulated from each other. Self-Control, Decision Theory, and Rationality brings them into dialog by focusing on the theme of rationality. It contains eleven newly written essays by a distinguished group of philosophers, psychologists, and decision theorists, together with a substantial introduction, collectively offering state-of-the-art perspectives on the rationality of self-control and the different mechanisms for achieving it.
Read more- All the essays are newly written by a distinguished group of philosophers, psychologists, and decision theorists
- The book is interdisciplinary in focus and thematically unified
- Includes a comprehensive introduction by the editor
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- Date Published: April 2021
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108413015
- length: 280 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 152 x 15 mm
- weight: 0.412kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
General introduction José Luis Bermúdez
1. Temptation and preference-based rationality Johanna Thoma
2. Self-prediction and self-control Martin Peterson and Peter Vallentyne
3. Rational plans Paul Weirich
4. Self-control and hyperbolic discounting Arif Ahmed
5. Preference reversals, delay discounting, rational choice, and the brain Leonard Green and Joel Myerson
6. In what sense are addicts irrational? Howard Rachlin
7. Why temptation? Chrisoula Andreou
8. Frames, rationality, and self-control José Luis Bermúdez
9. Exercising self-control: an apparent problem resolved Alfred R. Mele
10. Putting willpower into decision theory: the person as a team over time Natalie Gold
11. The many ways to achieve diachronic unity Kenny Easwaran and Reuben Stern.
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