Surrounding Self-Control

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. MelePart I. What is Self-Control and How Does it Work?2. The Long Reach of Self-ControlRoy F. Baumeister, Andrew J. Vonasch, and Hallgeir Sjåstad3. The Developmental and Cultural Origins of Our Beliefs About Self-ControlAdrienne Wente, Xin Zhao, Alison Gopnik, Carissa Kang, and Tamar Kushnir4. Self-Control as a Coordination ProblemAsael Y. Sklar and Kentaro Fujita5. Self-Control as Hybrid SkillMyrto Mylopoulos and Elisabeth Pacherie 6. Inhibitory Control and Self-ControlAlejandra Sel and Joshua Shepherd7. Exploring the Roles of Emotions in Self-ControlAndrea Scarantino8. Children, Responsibility for Self-Control Failures, and Narrative CapacityMeghan Griffith9. Mind Control: Self-Control and Decision-MakingMarcela Herdova and Stephen KearnsPart II. Temptation and Goal Pursuit10. Self-Control, Agency and the Placebo Brain Stimulation: Psychological and Philosophical PerspectivesDavide Rigoni, Naomi Vanlessen, Rossella Guerini, Mario De Caro, and Marcel Brass11. 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 Debus13. Resist or Yield? What to do with Temptations?Bence NanayPart III. Self-Control, Morality, and Law14. Moralizing Self-Control Marlon Mooijman, Peter Meindl, and Jesse Graham15. Achieving Goals by Imposing RiskKatherine Hawley16. Self-Control and Deliberate Ignorance: On Ignoring Information We Ought to Know and Processing Information We Shouldn'tSammy Basu and James Friedrich17. Self-Control, Co-Operation, and Intention's AuthorityLilian O'Brien18. Juvenile Self-Control and Legal Responsibility: Building a Scalar StandardTyler K. Fagan, Katrina Sifferd, and William HirsteinPart IV. Extending Self-Control19. Framing as a Mechanism for Self-Control: Rationality and Quasi-Cyclical PreferencesJosé Luis Bermúdez20. Empathetic Self-ControlDavid Shoemaker21. 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