Self-Control, Decision Theory, and Rationality

New Essays
Herausgeber: Bermúdez, José Luis

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Thinking about self-control takes us to the heart of practical decision-making, human agency, motivation, and rational choice. This interdisciplinary collection of new essays by philosophers, decision theorists, and psychologists offers state-of-the-art perspectives on the rationality of self-control and the different mechanisms for achieving it.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 412g
• ISBN-13: 9781108413015
• ISBN-10: 1108413013
• Artikelnr.: 60859403

Inhaltsangabe

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.