Self-Control, Decision Theory, and Rationality: New Essays - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1108413013 ISBN 13: 9781108413015

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2021

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

José Luis Bermúdez is Professor of Philosophy at Texas A & M University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1108413013
• ISBN 13: 9781108413015
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 282
• Editor: Bermúdez José Luis