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Thinking about self-control takes us to the heart of practical decision-making, human agency, motivation, and rational choice. Psychologists, philosophers, and

A distinguished group of philosophers, decision theorists, and psychologists offer new interdisciplinary perspectives on the rationality of self-control.

The concept of rationality is a common thread through the human and social sciences — from political science to philosophy, from economics to sociology, and f

Paul Weirich generalizes classical decision principles so that they apply to fallible, cognitively limited agents facing complex decision problems. His systemat

Human actions unfold over time, in pursuit of ends that are not fully specified in advance. Rational Powers in Action locates these features of the human condit