Alfred R. Mele is the William H. and Lucyle T. Werkmeister Professor of Philosophy at Florida State University. He is the author of eleven books and editor or coeditor of six other books for Oxford University Press, and author of over 200 articles. He is past director of two multi-million dollar, interdisciplinary projects: the Big Questions in Free Will project (2010-13) and the Philosophy and Science of Self-Control project (2014-17).

• 1. IntroductionAlfred R. Mele Part I. What is Self-Control and How Does it Work? 2. The Long Reach of Self-ControlRoy F. Baumeister, Andrew J. Vonasch, and Hallgeir Sjåstad 3. The Developmental and Cultural Origins of Our Beliefs About Self-ControlAdrienne Wente, Xin Zhao, Alison Gopnik, Carissa Kang, and Tamar Kushnir 4. Self-Control as a Coordination ProblemAsael Y. Sklar and Kentaro Fujita 5. Self-Control as Hybrid SkillMyrto Mylopoulos and Elisabeth Pacherie 6. Inhibitory Control and Self-ControlAlejandra Sel and Joshua Shepherd 7. Exploring the Roles of Emotions in Self-ControlAndrea Scarantino 8. Children, Responsibility for Self-Control Failures, and Narrative CapacityMeghan Griffith 9. Mind Control: Self-Control and Decision-Making Marcela Herdova and Stephen Kearns Part II. Temptation and Goal Pursuit 10. Self-Control, Agency and the Placebo Brain Stimulation: Psychological and Philosophical PerspectivesDavide Rigoni, Naomi Vanlessen, Rossella Guerini, Mario De Caro, and Marcel Brass 11. Framing Temptations in Relation to the Self: Acceptance and AlienationEric Funkhouser and Jennifer C. Veilleux 12. Shaping Our Mental Lives: On the Value of Mental Self-Control and Mental Self-RegulationDorothea Debus 13. Resist or Yield? What to do with Temptations?Bence Nanay Part III. Self-Control, Morality, and Law 14. Moralizing Self-Control Marlon Mooijman, Peter Meindl, and Jesse Graham 15. Achieving Goals by Imposing RiskKatherine Hawley 16. Self-Control and Deliberate Ignorance: On Ignoring Information We Ought to Know and Processing Information We Shouldn'tSammy Basu and James Friedrich 17. Self-Control, Co-Operation, and Intention's AuthorityLilian O'Brien 18. Juvenile Self-Control and Legal Responsibility: Building a Scalar Standard Tyler K. Fagan, Katrina Sifferd, and William Hirstein Part IV. Extending Self-Control 19. Framing as a Mechanism for Self-Control: Rationality and Quasi-Cyclical Preferences José Luis Bermúdez 20. Empathetic Self-ControlDavid Shoemaker 21. Negligence and Social Self-GovernanceManuel R. Vargas 22. Frankfurt and the Problem of Self-ControlRyan Cummings and Adina L. Roskies 23. Self-Control, Mental Time Travel and the Temporally Extended SelfErica Cosentino

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