Weakness of Will and Delay Discounting

Both philosophy and the behavioural sciences have studied weakness of will and our propensity to discount the value of delayed outcomes. Nora Heinzelmann now brings the disciplines together, making the ideas of each accessible to the other. It reveals that delay discounting is neither necessary not sufficient for weakness of will.

List of contents

• 1.: Introduction


• I:Philosophy


• 2.: Weakness of Will


• 3.: Philosophical Accounts


• II:Science


• 4.: Agency in Descriptive Research


• 5.: Discounting


• III:Science Meets Philosophy


• 6.: Describing Weakness of will


• 7.: Criticising Weakness of Will


• 8.: Practical Takeaways


• 9.: Conclusion

About the author

Nora Heinzelmann is a junior faculty member of the Institute for Philosophy at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. She received her PhD in Philosophy from the University of Cambridge with a dissertation on weakness of will. She has been collaborating with researches from the behavioural sciences since 2011, when she conducted a research project at the Department of Economics at the University of Zurich. She has degrees in philosophy from Oxford (BPhil) and Munich (MPhil).

Summary

Both philosophy and the behavioural sciences have studied weakness of will and our propensity to discount the value of delayed outcomes. Nora Heinzelmann now brings the disciplines together, making the ideas of each accessible to the other. It reveals that delay discounting is neither necessary not sufficient for weakness of will.

Additional text

In this informative and comprehensive book, Henzelmann attributes three properties to weakness of the will: it is puzzling, it is an error, and it involves a conflict.

Product details

• Authors: Nora Heinzelmann, Nora (Junior Faculty Member Heinzelmann
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.08.2023
• EAN: 9780192865953
• ISBN: 978-0-19-286595-3
• No. of pages: 210
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, Philosophy of Mind, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Behavioural economics, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Cognition and cognitive psychology, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Social & Behavioral