Self-Control, Decision Theory, and Rationality
Subtitle: New Essays
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jan 24, 2019
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9781108420099
Description: 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.
Notes: Source title: Self-Control, Decision Theory, and Rationality: New Essays