The Thief of Time
Philosophical Essays on Procrastination
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 29 April 2010
- ISBN 9780195376685
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages320 pages
- Size 239x166x26 mm
- Weight 594 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 12 black and white line illustrations 0
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Short description:
When we fail to achieve our goals, procrastination is often the culprit. But how exactly is procrastination to be understood? This edited volume integrates the problem of procrastination into philosophical inquiry, exploring the relationship of procrastination to agency, rationality, and ethics--topics that philosophy is well-suited to address.
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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?
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.
Table of Contents:
Notes on the Contributors
Introduction- Chrisoula Andreou and Mark D. White
Part I
Procrastination: The Basic Impulse - George Ainslie
Economic Models of Procrastination - Don Ross
Procrastination Weakness of Will? - Sarah Stroud
Intransitive Preferences, Vagueness, and the Structure of Procrastination - Duncan MacIntosh
Bad Timing - Jon Elster
Part II
Prudence, Procrastination, and Rationality - Olav Gjelsvik
Procrastination and Personal Identity - Christine Tappolet
Procrastination, Vagueness and the Policy as Action Model - Sergio Tenenbaum
Virtue for Procrastinators - Elijah Millgram
Procrastination as Vice - Jennifer A. Baker
Part III
Overcoming Procrastination through Planning - Frank Wieber and Peter M. Gollwitzer
Coping with Procrastination - Chrisoula Andreou
Resisting Procrastination: Kantian Autonomy and the Role of the Will - Mark D. White
Procrastination and the Extended Will - Joseph Heath and Joel Anderson
Procrastination and the Law - Manuel A. Utset
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