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The Thief of Time
Philosophical Essays on Procrastination
Edited by Chrisoula Andreou and Mark D. White
314 pages
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12 black and white line illustrations
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235x156mm
978-0-19-537668-5
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Hardback
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29 April 2010
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- May be useful in graduate and advanced undergraduate programs in philosophy and psychology, and in economics programs focused on rationality and decision theory. The book is suitable for a variety of courses covering issues concerning decision-making, temptation, self-defeating behavior, and (ir)rationality.
- All original (previously unpublished) essays
- Interdisciplinary approach
- Philosophical research on a topic that has received almost no previous attention in philosophy
When we fail to achieve our goals, procrastination is often the culprit. But how exactly is procrastination to be understood? It has been described as imprudent, irrational, inconsistent, and even immoral, but there has been no sustained philosophical debate concerning the topic.
This edited volume starts in on the task of integrating the problem of procrastination into philosophical inquiry. The focus is on exploring procrastination in relation to agency, rationality, and ethics-topics that philosophy is well-suited to address. Theoretically and empirically informed analyses are developed and
applied with the aim of shedding light on a vexing practical problem that generates a great deal of frustration, regret, and harm. Some of the key questions that are addressed include the following: How can we analyze procrastination in a way that does justice to both its voluntary and its self-defeating dimensions? What kind of practical failing is procrastination? Is it a form of weakness of will? Is it the product of fragmented agency? Is it a vice? Given the nature of procrastination, what are the most promising coping strategies?Readership: Philosophers, psychologists, and economists, plus decision theorists in a number of social scientific and mathematical disciplines
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Edited by Chrisoula Andreou, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Utah, and Mark D. White, Professor, Department of Political Science, Economics, and Philosophy, College of Staten Island, CUNY Contributors:
George Ainslie, Veterans Affairs Medical Center; Joel Anderson, Philosophy, Utrecht University, Netherlands; Chrisoula Andreou, Philosophy, University of Utah; Jennifer A. Baker, Philosophy, College of Charleston; Jon Elster, Social Science, Columbia University; Olav Gjelsvik, Philosophy, University of Oslo; Peter M. Gollwitzer, Psychology, New York University; Joseph Heath, Philosophy, University of Toronto;
Elijah Millgram, Philosophy, University of Utah; Don Ross, Economics, University of Cape Town, Economics and Philosophy, University of Alabama at Birmingham; Sarah Stroud, Philosophy, McGill University; Christine Tappolet, Philosophy, Université de Montréal; Sergio Tenenbaum, Philosophy, University of Toronto; Manuel A. Utset, Jr., Florida State University College of Law; Mark D. White, Political Science, Economics, and Philosophy, College of Staten Island (CUNY); Frank Wieber, Research Associate, University of Konstanz in Germany
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"The Thief of Time is an interesting and important book. It deals in fresh ways with well-known philosophical problems: will and rationality and their weaknesses, vice and virtue, identity, the nature of lived time. And more importantly, Andreou and White's collection often weds these questions to ordinary struggles and anxieties - lucidly and sometimes enjoyably ... Worth putting off rubbish television for it." - Damon Young, Philosophers' Magazine
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Notes on the Contributors
Introduction- Chrisoula Andreou and Mark D. White
Part I
1.: Procrastination: The Basic Impulse - George Ainslie
2.: Economic Models of Procrastination - Don Ross
3.: Procrastination Weakness of Will? - Sarah Stroud
4.: Intransitive Preferences, Vagueness, and the Structure of Procrastination - Duncan MacIntosh
5.: Bad Timing - Jon Elster
Part II
6.: Prudence, Procrastination, and Rationality - Olav Gjelsvik
7.: Procrastination and Personal Identity - Christine Tappolet
8.: Procrastination, Vagueness and the Policy as Action Model - Sergio Tenenbaum
9.: Virtue for Procrastinators - Elijah Millgram
10.: Procrastination as Vice - Jennifer A. Baker
Part III
11.: Overcoming Procrastination through Planning - Frank Wieber and Peter M. Gollwitzer
12.: Coping with Procrastination - Chrisoula Andreou
13.: Resisting Procrastination: Kantian Autonomy and the Role of the Will - Mark D. White
14.: Procrastination and the Extended Will - Joseph Heath and Joel Anderson
15.: Procrastination and the Law - Manuel A. Utset
Bibliography
Index
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