236. Self-Control, Akrasia, & Multiple Self Theory

Acting against our better judgment is a bit of a puzzle: if we know what’s “best,” & nothing is preventing us, why don’t we do it? Who is it that’s doing the controlling or being controlled in “self-control?”

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Links for the Curious -

First Person Plural (Bloom, 2008) - https://pdodds.w3.uvm.edu/files/paper...

A Multiple Self Theory of the Mind - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/...

A Dual-Self Model of Impulse Control (Fudenberg & Levine, 2006) - https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/documen...

From dual processes to multiple selves: Implications for economic behavior (Alós-Ferrer & Strack, 2014) - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...

I, Too, Sail Past - Odysseus and the Logic of Self-Control (Sally, 2000) - https://www.researchgate.net/profile/...

Reflection and Reasoning in Moral Judgment - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/p...

Emotions and Decision Making (Lerner et al, 2014) - https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/jen...

Fluctuating capacity and advance decision-making in Bipolar Affective Disorder — Self-binding directives and self-determination (Gergel & Owen, 2015) - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...

The Stanford Marshmallow Prison Experiment - https://hotelconcierge.tumblr.com/pos...

Embodied Akrasia: James On Motivation And Weakness Of Will - https://www.jstor.org/stable/26493690

Discourse on the Passions (Hume) - https://davidhume.org/texts/p/full

Weakness of Will (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) - https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/we...