Surrounding Self-Control

477 Pages·2020·8.728 MB·English

by  Alfred R. Mele (editor)

Surrounding Self- Control

Surrounding
Self- Control
Edited by
ALFRED R. MELE
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Contents
1. Introduction 1
Alfred R. Mele
PART I. WHAT IS SELF- CONTROL AND
HOW DOES IT WORK?
2. The Long Reach of Self-C ontrol 17
Roy F. Baumeister, Andrew J. Vonasch, and Hallgeir Sjåstad
3. The Developmental and Cultural Origins of Our Beliefs about
Self- Control 47
Adrienne Wente, Xin Zhao, Alison Gopnik, Carissa Kang,
and Tamar Kushnir
4. Self- Control as a Coordination Problem 65
Asael Y. Sklar and Kentaro Fujita
5. Self- Control as Hybrid Skill 81
Myrto Mylopoulos and Elisabeth Pacherie
6. Inhibitory Control and Self-C ontrol 101
Alejandra Sel and Joshua Shepherd
7. Exploring the Roles of Emotions in Self-C ontrol 116
Andrea Scarantino
8. Children, Responsibility for Self-C ontrol Failures,
and Narrative Capacity 142
Meghan Griffith
9. Mind Control: Self-C ontrol and Decision-M aking 164
Marcela Herdova and Stephen Kearns
PART II. TEMPTATION AND GOAL PURSUIT
10. Self- Control, Agency, and the Placebo Brain
Stimulation: Psychological and Philosophical Perspectives 189
Davide Rigoni, Naomi Vanlessen, Rossella Guerini, Mario De Caro,
and Marcel Brass
viii Contents
11. Framing Temptations in Relation to the Self: Acceptance
and Alienation 203
Eric Funkhouser and Jennifer C. Veilleux
12. Shaping Our Mental Lives: On the Value of Mental Self-C ontrol
and Mental Self-R egulation 225
Dorothea Debus
13. Resist or Yield? What to Do with Temptations? 243
Bence Nanay
PART III. SELF- CONTROL, MORALITY,
AND LAW
14. Moralizing Self- Control 259
Marlon Mooijman, Peter Meindl, and Jesse Graham
15. Achieving Goals by Imposing Risk 275
Katherine Hawley
16. Self- Control and Deliberate Ignorance: On Ignoring Information
We Ought to Know and Processing Information We Shouldn’t 293
Sammy Basu and James Friedrich
17. Self- Control, Cooperation, and Intention’s Authority 315
Lilian O’Brien
18. Juvenile Self-C ontrol and Legal Responsibility: Building
a Scalar Standard 334
Tyler K. Fagan, Katrina Sifferd, and William Hirstein
PART IV. EXTENDING SELF- CONTROL
19. Framing as a Mechanism for Self-C ontrol: Rationality
and Quasi- Cyclical Preferences 361
José Luis Bermúdez
20. Empathic Self- Control 384
David Shoemaker
21. Negligence and Social Self-G overnance 400
Manuel Vargas
Contents ix
22. Frankfurt and the Problem of Self-C ontrol 421
Ryan Cummings and Adina L. Roskies
23. Self- Control, Mental Time Travel, and the Temporally
Extended Self 434
Erica Cosentino
List of Contributors 453
Index 457