Surrounding Self-Control -

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Résumé :
Self-control has gained enormous attention in recent years both in philosophy and the mind sciences, for it has profound implications on so many aspects of human life. Overcoming temptation, improving cognitive functioning, making life-altering decisions, and numerous other challenges all depend upon self-control. But recent developments in the philosophy of mind and in action theory, as well as in psychology, are now testing some of the assumptions about the nature of self-control previously held on purely a priori grounds. New essays in this volume offer fresh insights from a variety of angles: neuroscience...

Biographie:

• 1. Introduction


• Alfred R. Mele


• Part I. What is Self-Control and How Does it Work?


• 2. The Long Reach of Self-Control


• Roy F. Baumeister, Andrew J. Vonasch, and Hallgeir Sj?stad


• 3. The Developmental and Cultural Origins of Our Beliefs About Self-Control


• Adrienne Wente, Xin Zhao, Alison Gopnik, Carissa Kang, and Tamar Kushnir


• 4. Self-Control as a Coordination Problem


• Asael Y. Sklar and Kentaro Fujita


• 5. Self-Control as Hybrid Skill


• Myrto Mylopoulos and Elisabeth Pacherie


• 6. Inhibitory Control and Self-Control


• Alejandra Sel and Joshua Shepherd


• 7. Exploring the Roles of Emotions in Self-Control


• Andrea Scarantino


• 8. Children, Responsibility for Self-Control Failures, and Narrative Capacity


• Meghan Griffith


• 9. Mind Control: Self-Control and Decision-Making


• Marcela Herdova and Stephen Kearns


• Part II. Temptation and Goal Pursuit


• 10. Self-Control, Agency and the Placebo Brain Stimulation: Psychological and Philosophical Perspectives


• Davide Rigoni, Naomi Vanlessen, Rossella Guerini, Mario De Caro, and Marcel Brass


• 11. Framing Temptations in Relation to the Self: Acceptance and Alienation


• Eric Funkhouser and Jennifer C. Veilleux


• 12. Shaping Our Mental Lives: On the Value of Mental Self-Control and Mental Self-Regulation


• Dorothea Debus


• 13. Resist or Yield? What to do with Temptations?


• Bence Nanay


• Part III. Self-Control, Morality, and Law


• 14. Moralizing Self-Control


• Marlon Mooijman, Peter Meindl, and Jesse Graham


• 15. Achieving Goals by Imposing Risk


• Katherine Hawley


• 16. Self-Control and Deliberate Ignorance: On Ignoring Information We Ought to Know and Processing Information We Shouldn't


• Sammy Basu and James Friedrich


• 17. Self-Control, Co-Operation, and Intention's Authority


• Lilian O'Brien


• 18. Juvenile Self-Control and Legal Responsibility: Building a Scalar Standard


• Tyler K. Fagan, Katrina Sifferd, and William Hirstein


• Part IV. Extending Self-Control


• 19. Framing as a Mechanism for Self-Control: Rationality and Quasi-Cyclical Preferences


• Jos? Luis Berm?dez


• 20. Empathetic Self-Control


• David Shoemaker


• 21. Negligence and Social Self-Governance


• Manuel R. Vargas


• 22. Frankfurt and the Problem of Self-Control


• Ryan Cummings and Adina L. Roskies


• 23. Self-Control, Mental Time Travel and the Temporally Extended Self


• Erica Cosentino