Surrounding Self-Control

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; social, cognitive, and developmental psychology; decision theory; and philosophy. While much of the literature on self-control is spread across distinct disciplines and journals, this volume presents for the first time a thorough and truly interdisciplinary exploration of the topic. The essays address four central topics: what self-control is and how it works; temptation and goal pursuit; self-control, morality, and law; and extending self-control. They take up an array of complex and important questions. What is self-control? How is self-control related to willpower? How does inhibitory control work? What are the cultural and developmental origins of beliefs about self-control? How are attempts at self-control hindered or helped by emotions? How do our beliefs about our own ability to deal with temptation influence our behavior? What does the ability to avoid temptation depend on? How should juvenile responsibility be understood, and how should the juvenile justice system be reformed? Can an account of self-control help us understand free will? Combining the most recent scientific research with new frontiers in the philosophy of mind, this volume offers the most definitive guide to self-control to date.

Sommario

• 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 Sjåstad


• 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


• José Luis Bermúdez


• 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

Info autore

Alfred R. Mele is the William H. and Lucyle T. Werkmeister Professor of Philosophy at Florida State University. He is the author of eleven books and editor or coeditor of six other books for Oxford University Press, and author of over 200 articles. He is past director of two multi-million dollar, interdisciplinary projects: the Big Questions in Free Will project (2010-13) and the Philosophy and Science of Self-Control project (2014-17).

Riassunto

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; social, cognitive, and developmental psychology; decision theory; and philosophy. While much of the literature on self-control is spread across distinct disciplines and journals, this volume presents for the first time a thorough and truly interdisciplinary exploration of the topic.

The essays address four central topics: what self-control is and how it works; temptation and goal pursuit; self-control, morality, and law; and extending self-control. They take up an array of complex and important questions. What is self-control? How is self-control related to willpower? How does inhibitory control work? What are the cultural and developmental origins of beliefs about self-control? How are attempts at self-control hindered or helped by emotions? How do our beliefs about our own ability to deal with temptation influence our behavior? What does the ability to avoid temptation depend on? How should juvenile responsibility be understood, and how should the juvenile justice system be reformed? Can an account of self-control help us understand free will?

Combining the most recent scientific research with new frontiers in the philosophy of mind, this volume offers the most definitive guide to self-control to date.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Alfred R. (William H. And Lucyle T. Werkmeis Mele
• Con la collaborazione di: Alfred R. Mele (Editore), Alfred R. (William H. and Lucyle T. Werkmeister Professor Mele (Editore), Mele Alfred R. (Editore)
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9780197500941
• ISBN: 978-0-19-750094-1
• Pagine: 488
• Categorie: Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Filosofia: tematiche generali, opere di consultazione; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Filosofia > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy