Nora Heinzelmann

Weakness of Will and Delay Discounting

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Both philosophy and the behavioural sciences have studied weakness of will and our propensity to discount the value of delayed outcomes. Nora Heinzelmann now brings the disciplines together, making the ideas of each accessible to the other. It reveals that delay discounting is neither necessary not sufficient for weakness of will.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 163mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 467g
• ISBN-13: 9780192865953
• ISBN-10: 0192865951
• Artikelnr.: 68213775

Autorenporträt

Nora Heinzelmann is a junior faculty member of the Institute for Philosophy at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. She received her PhD in Philosophy from the University of Cambridge with a dissertation on weakness of will. She has been collaborating with researches from the behavioural sciences since 2011, when she conducted a research project at the Department of Economics at the University of Zurich. She has degrees in philosophy from Oxford (BPhil) and Munich (MPhil).

Inhaltsangabe

1.: Introduction
I:Philosophy
2.: Weakness of Will
3.: Philosophical Accounts
II:Science
4.: Agency in Descriptive Research
5.: Discounting
III:Science Meets Philosophy
6.: Describing Weakness of will
7.: Criticising Weakness of Will
8.: Practical Takeaways
9.: Conclusion