| Contents |
Cover; Half-title page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Temptation and Preference-Based Instrumental Rationality; 2 Self-Prediction and Self-Control; 3 Rational Plans; 4 Self-Control and Hyperbolic Discounting; 5 Preference Reversals, Delay Discounting, Rational Choice, and the Brain; 6 In What Sense Are Addicts Irrational?; 7 Why Temptation?; 8 Frames, Rationality, and Self-Control; 9 Exercising Self-Control: An Apparent Problem Resolved |
| Contents |
10 Putting Willpower into Decision Theory: The Person As a Team Over Time and Intrapersonal Team Reasoning; 11 The Many Ways to Achieve Diachronic Unity; Index |
| Summary |
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. |
| Source of description | Print version record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Self-control, decision theory, and rationality. Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018 9781108420099 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9781108352079 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 1108352073 (electronic bk.) |
