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Autonomous Agents: From Self-Control to Autonomy
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 Table of contents
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Contents |
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PART I |
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| 1. |
Introduction: Self-Control and Personal Autonomy , |
3 |
| 2. |
Better Judgment: Nature and Function , |
15 |
| 3. |
Exercising Self-Control: A Motivational Problem , |
32 |
| 4. |
Self-Control Akrasia, and Second-Order Desires , |
59 |
| 5. |
Self-Control and Belief , |
86 |
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Self-Control, Akrasia, and Emotion , |
102 |
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The Upper Reaches of Self-Control and the Ideally Self-Controlled Person , |
112 |
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PART II |
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Transition: From Self-Control to Autonomy , |
131 |
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Psychological Autonomy and Personal History , |
144 |
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Compatibilist Autonomy and Autonomous Action , |
177 |
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Problems for Libertarians , |
195 |
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Incompatibilist Autonomy and Autonomous Action , |
211 |
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Assessing the Denial of Autonomy , |
237 |
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References , |
257 |
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Index , |
265 |
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