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2023
AbstractThis chapter examines the grounds on which weak-willed delay discounting may be criticized as irrational. Weakness of will has been a prime example of practical irrationality for philosophers. Given an understanding of weak-willed delay discounting, the weak-willed actions it determines may be understood as biased.
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AbstractThis chapter examines the grounds on which weak-willed delay discounting may be criticized as irrational. Weakness of will has been a prime example of practical irrationality for philosophers. Given an understanding of weak-willed delay discounting, the weak-willed actions it determines may be understood as biased.
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2023
AbstractThis chapter introduces basic conceptions and questions from the philosophical literature on weakness of the will to readers not familiar with them. It starts with a detailed explanation of core concepts (‘agent’, ‘action’, ‘judgement’, ‘intention’) as they feature in conceptual analyses of weakness of the will.
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AbstractThis chapter introduces basic conceptions and questions from the philosophical literature on weakness of the will to readers not familiar with them. It starts with a detailed explanation of core concepts (‘agent’, ‘action’, ‘judgement’, ‘intention’) as they feature in conceptual analyses of weakness of the will.
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2023
AbstractCombining the philosophical and the scientific perspective, this chapter suggests a new way of describing weak-willed delay discounting. On this view, weak-willed action is, roughly, due to how the agent responds to the uncertainty about whether or when an anticipated good materializes.
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AbstractCombining the philosophical and the scientific perspective, this chapter suggests a new way of describing weak-willed delay discounting. On this view, weak-willed action is, roughly, due to how the agent responds to the uncertainty about whether or when an anticipated good materializes.
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Skepticism about Weakness of Will
The Philosophical Review, 1977AbstractThis chapter considers two sorts of scepticism about the possibility of knowingly acting against one's practical judgment, or weakness of will. The Socratic view that weak behaviour is impossible overlooks the truth that human beings are subject to different sources of motivation: evaluative judgments and mere desires.
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Ratio, 2008
AbstractCan absolute freedom of will be defended by arguing that apparent cases of diminished freedom when we act out of passion are cases of weakness of will? Rogers Albritton thought so. What is intriguing about Albritton's view is that he thought when we act from desire we are making choices, yet our desires are not functioning as reasons for those ...
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AbstractCan absolute freedom of will be defended by arguing that apparent cases of diminished freedom when we act out of passion are cases of weakness of will? Rogers Albritton thought so. What is intriguing about Albritton's view is that he thought when we act from desire we are making choices, yet our desires are not functioning as reasons for those ...
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Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2007
Aquinas’s admirers, reacting against Donald Davidson’s criticisms of him, commonly argue (a) that the will does play a role in Aquinas’s account of incontinence, and (b) that his explanation of incontinent action turns on the weakness of the will. The first part of this paper argues that they are correct about (a) but wholly mistaken about (b). Aquinas
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Aquinas’s admirers, reacting against Donald Davidson’s criticisms of him, commonly argue (a) that the will does play a role in Aquinas’s account of incontinence, and (b) that his explanation of incontinent action turns on the weakness of the will. The first part of this paper argues that they are correct about (a) but wholly mistaken about (b). Aquinas
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Mind, 1985
In a paper published in this journal, Frank Jackson develops an account of weakness of will that is interesting for at least two reasons. 1 First of all, in an ingenious way Jackson makes use of decision theory to provide a criterion for action that is the issue of a desire that has 'not evolved in accordance with the agent's reason', and argues that ...
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In a paper published in this journal, Frank Jackson develops an account of weakness of will that is interesting for at least two reasons. 1 First of all, in an ingenious way Jackson makes use of decision theory to provide a criterion for action that is the issue of a desire that has 'not evolved in accordance with the agent's reason', and argues that ...
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Colorectal cancer statistics, 2023
Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 2023Rebecca L Siegel +2 more
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