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

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Edited by José Luis Bermúdez, Texas A & M University

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date: November 2018
Print publication year: 2018
Online ISBN: 9781108329170
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108329170

Subjects: Philosophy of Science, Optimization, OR and risk, Statistics and Probability, Philosophy

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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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Self-Control, Decision Theory, and Rationality
pp i-ii

Self-Control, Decision Theory, and Rationality - Title page
pp iii-iii

Copyright page
pp iv-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Figures
pp vii-viii

Tables
pp ix-ix

Contributors
pp x-xi

Acknowledgments
pp xii-xii

Introduction
pp 1-26

Chapter 1 - Temptation and Preference-Based Instrumental Rationality
pp 27-47

Chapter 2 - Self-Prediction and Self-Control
pp 48-71

Chapter 3 - Rational Plans
pp 72-95

Chapter 4 - Self-Control and Hyperbolic Discounting
pp 96-120

Appendix 4A - Proof that Is a Necessary and Sufficient Condition for EDT and CDT to Give Different Recommendations
pp 115-115

Appendix 4B - A Model on which EDT and CDT Make Convergent Recommendations
pp 116-117

Appendix 4C - Proof that on the Markov Process Model, Is Sufficient for EDT to Recommend Abstention Every Evening
pp 118-118

Appendix 4D - Proof of Equation
pp 119-120

Chapter 5 - Preference Reversals, Delay Discounting, Rational Choice, and the Brain
pp 121-146

Chapter 6 - In What Sense Are Addicts Irrational?
pp 147-166

Chapter 7 - Why Temptation?
pp 167-178

Chapter 8 - Frames, Rationality, and Self-Control
pp 179-203

Chapter 9 - Exercising Self-Control
pp 204-217

Chapter 10 - Putting Willpower into Decision Theory
pp 218-239

Chapter 11 - The Many Ways to Achieve Diachronic Unity
pp 240-263

Appendix 11A - Aidan: Concave-Up Utilities
pp 254-257

Appendix 11B - Brooklyn: Linear Utility with a Switching Cost
pp 258-259

Appendix 11C - Carmen: Costs to Introspection
pp 260-263

Index
pp 264-268

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