Self-Control, Decision Theory, and Rationality
Self-Control, Decision Theory, and Rationality
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.
- 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
Product details
April 2021Paperback
9781108413015
280 pages
228 × 152 × 15 mm
0.412kg
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.
