Weakness of Will and Practical Irrationality

By Sarah Stroud, Christine Tappolet. 2003

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Philosophy

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• Reflections on social values, offending and desistance among young adult recidivists (2011, background): “These are all strategies designed to avoid what philosophers call ‘weakness of will’ (Stroud and Tappoulet, 2003) – that is, the condition of acting voluntarily in a way that the actor considers is not in his/her long-term interests, and so something (s)he will regret later.”