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Zusatztext The Thief of Time is an interesting and important book. It deals in fresh ways with well-known philosophical problems: will and rationality and their weaknesses, vice and virtue, identity, the nature of lived time. And more importantly, Andreou and White's collection often weds these questions to ordinary struggles and anxieties - lucidly and sometimes enjoyably ... Worth putting off rubbish television for it. Informationen zum Autor Chrisoula Andreou is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Utah.Mark D. White is Professor in the Department of Political Science, Economics, and Philosophy at the College of Staten Island, CUNY. Klappentext The essays collected in this volume explore procrastination in relation to agency, rationality, and ethics ¿ topics that philosophy is well-suited to address. Zusammenfassung The essays collected in this volume explore procrastination in relation to agency, rationality, and ethics -- topics that philosophy is well-suited to address. Inhaltsverzeichnis Notes on the Contributors Introduction, Chrisoula Andreou and Mark D. White Part I 1. Procrastination: The Basic Impulse, George Ainslie 2. Economic Models of Procrastination, Don Ross 3. Is Procrastination Weakness of Will?, Sarah Stroud 4. Intransitive Preferences, Vagueness, and the Structure of Procrastination, Duncan MacIntosh 5. Bad Timing, Jon Elster Part II 6. Prudence, Procrastination, and Rationality, Olav Gjelsvik 7. Procrastination and Personal Identity, Christine Tappolet 8. Procrastination, Vagueness and the Policy as Action Model, Sergio Tenenbaum 9. Virtue for Procrastinators, Elijah Millgram 10. Procrastination as Vice, Jennifer A. Baker Part III 11. Overcoming Procrastination through Planning, Frank Wieber and Peter M. Gollwitzer 12. Coping with Procrastination, Chrisoula Andreou 13. Resisting Procrastination: Kantian Autonomy and the Role of the Will, Mark D. White 14. Procrastination and the Extended Will, Joseph Heath and Joel Anderson 15. Procrastination and the Law, Manuel A. Utset Bibliography Index ...
