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, 2006 The dominant view regards weakness of will an anomaly facing the standard theory of rationality. The paper argues the opposite: What is anomalous is that weakness of will is not pervasive enough. In a simple model, the paper shows that weakness of will is the dominant strategy in a game between current self and future self. This leads to the motivating
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Mind, 1984
There is a long tradition which views the problem of weakness of will as the problem of how agents can intentionally do what they consider wrong. And given that intentional acts are ones in accord with wants and desires, the problem becomes how we can simultaneously judge something wrong and yet want to do it.
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There is a long tradition which views the problem of weakness of will as the problem of how agents can intentionally do what they consider wrong. And given that intentional acts are ones in accord with wants and desires, the problem becomes how we can simultaneously judge something wrong and yet want to do it.
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Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 1997
My chief aim is to explain how someone can act freely against her own best judgment. But I also have a second aim: to defend a conception of practical rationality according to which someone cannot do something freely if she believes it would be better to do something else. These aims may appear incompatible.
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My chief aim is to explain how someone can act freely against her own best judgment. But I also have a second aim: to defend a conception of practical rationality according to which someone cannot do something freely if she believes it would be better to do something else. These aims may appear incompatible.
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2022
Abstract This chapter sketches a view about how paradigmatic weak-willed actions are produced that it contrasts with competing views, including some ancient views. Along the way, it explores the entanglement of weakness of will with such issues as how our intentional actions are to be explained, the power of practical reasoning and ...
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Abstract This chapter sketches a view about how paradigmatic weak-willed actions are produced that it contrasts with competing views, including some ancient views. Along the way, it explores the entanglement of weakness of will with such issues as how our intentional actions are to be explained, the power of practical reasoning and ...
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2023
This chapter identifies a trade-off between two democratic goods: responsiveness and self-governance. Lagerspetz argues that maximal democratic responsiveness precludes the possibility of self-governance when individuals express incoherent or indeterminate collective preferences.
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This chapter identifies a trade-off between two democratic goods: responsiveness and self-governance. Lagerspetz argues that maximal democratic responsiveness precludes the possibility of self-governance when individuals express incoherent or indeterminate collective preferences.
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Philosophical Studies, 2009
Richard Holton has developed a view of the nature of weak-willed actions, and I have done the same for akratic actions. How well does this view of mine fare in the sphere of weakness of will? Considerably better than Holton’s view. That is a thesis of this article. The article’s aim is to clarify the nature of weak-willed actions.
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Richard Holton has developed a view of the nature of weak-willed actions, and I have done the same for akratic actions. How well does this view of mine fare in the sphere of weakness of will? Considerably better than Holton’s view. That is a thesis of this article. The article’s aim is to clarify the nature of weak-willed actions.
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2005
Abstract The possibility of akrasia or weakness of will, i.e., the phenomenon of agents acting against their best judgement or reasons, presents a problem for internalism. This chapter reviews and rejects a number of accounts of weakness of will by Donald Davidson, Christine Korsgaard, Alfred Mele, Gary Watson and others.
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Abstract The possibility of akrasia or weakness of will, i.e., the phenomenon of agents acting against their best judgement or reasons, presents a problem for internalism. This chapter reviews and rejects a number of accounts of weakness of will by Donald Davidson, Christine Korsgaard, Alfred Mele, Gary Watson and others.
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2019
A person acts out of strength of will if she punctually does what she has realized to be structurally rational. Weakness of will is displayed in structurally irrational punctual optimization. Strength of will is a prerequisite for responsible action.
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A person acts out of strength of will if she punctually does what she has realized to be structurally rational. Weakness of will is displayed in structurally irrational punctual optimization. Strength of will is a prerequisite for responsible action.
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Rationality and Weakness of Will
Journal of Chinese Philosophy, 1981The paradoxes of akrasia are examined in some depth with attention to a number of well-known analyses, particularly those advanced by Donald Davidson and R.M. Hare.
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