Breakdown of WillCambridge University Press, 2001 M03 19 - 258 páginas Ainslie argues that our responses to the threat of our own inconsistency determine the basic fabric of human culture. He suggests that individuals are more like populations of bargaining agents than like the hierarchical command structures envisaged by cognitive psychologists. The forces that create and constrain these populations help us understand so much that is puzzling in human action and interaction: from addictions and other self-defeating behaviors to the experience of willfulness, from pathological over-control and self-deception to subtler forms of behavior such as altruism, sadism, gambling, and the 'social construction' of belief. This book integrates approaches from experimental psychology, philosophy of mind, microeconomics, and decision science to present one of the most profound and expert accounts of human irrationality available. It will be of great interest to philosophers and an important resource for professionals and students in psychology, economics and political science. |
Contenido
Introduction | 3 |
The Dichotomy at the Root of Decision Science Do We Make Choices By Desires or By Judgments? | 13 |
The Warp in How We Evaluate the Future | 27 |
The Warp Can Create Involuntary Behaviors Pains Hungers Emotions | 48 |
A BREAKDOWN OF THE WILL THE COMPONENTS OF INTERTEMPORAL BARGAINING | 71 |
The Elementary Interaction of Interest | 73 |
Sophisticated Bargaining Among Internal Interest | 90 |
The Subjective Experience of Intertemporal Bargaining | 105 |
The Downside of Willpower | 143 |
An Efficient Will Undermines Appetite | 161 |
The Need to Maintain Appetite Eclipses the Will | 175 |
Conclusions | 198 |
Notes | 201 |
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Getting Evidence about a Nonlinear Motivational System | 117 |
THE ULTIMATE BREAKDOWN OF WILL NOTHING FAILS LIKE SUCCESS | 141 |
Términos y frases comunes
addiction Ainslie akrasia alcohol Alexithymia animals available appetite aversive avoid basic become belief brain chaos theory Chapter choice choice-making choose classical conditioning cognitive commitment compulsion conditioning conventional utility theory cooperation create decision defection delay depend described diet disulfiram dominant drink drug effect Elster emotional reward empathy example expectation experience Experimental exponential discounting fact factor feel future gambling Gary Becker Herrnstein human hungers hyperbolic discount curves impulse incentive individual instance intertemporal bargaining itches Jon Elster Journal Julius Kuhl kind lapse long-range interest matching law maximize mechanism motivation Newcomb's problem occasions pain passion pattern personal rules philosopher pigeons players pleasure predict premature satiation principle prisoner's dilemma problem properties prospect Psychoanalysis psychologists puzzle Rachlin rational reason recursive responses seems self-control short-range interests social sometimes stake stimuli strategy subjects suggest superego temporary preference temptation there's things tion urge willpower
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