Description
| Product ID: | 9781108413015 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Self-Control, Decision Theory, and Rationality |
| Subtitle: | New Essays |
| Authors: | Author: Jose Luis Bermudez |
| Page Count: | 280 |
| Subjects: | Philosophy of mind, Philosophy of mind |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-04-08 |
