Self-control, decision theory, and rationality : new essays / edited by Jose Luis Bermudez, Texas A & M University.
Material type: TextPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018Description: 1 online resource (xii, 268 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781108329170 (ebook)
- 153.8 23
- BF632 .S524 2018
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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.
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