Mining new research in neuroscience; social, cognitive, and developmental psychology; decision theory; and philosophy, the essays in this volume offer a multi-dimensional, robust examination of self-control. The cutting-edge chapters tackle a wide range of issues, for example: what enables us to resist temptation; the cultural and developmental origins of beliefs about self-control; how attempts at self-control are hindered or helped by emotions; the connections between self-control and moral beliefs; and how the juvenile justice system should be reformed given what we know about juvenile brains.

• 1. Introduction


• Alfred R. Mele


• Part I. What is Self-Control and How Does it Work?


• 2. The Long Reach of Self-Control


• Roy F. Baumeister, Andrew J. Vonasch, and Hallgeir Sjåstad


• 3. The Developmental and Cultural Origins of Our Beliefs About Self-Control


• Adrienne Wente, Xin Zhao, Alison Gopnik, Carissa Kang, and Tamar Kushnir


• 4. Self-Control as a Coordination Problem


• Asael Y. Sklar and Kentaro Fujita


• 5. Self-Control as Hybrid Skill


• Myrto Mylopoulos and Elisabeth Pacherie


• 6. Inhibitory Control and Self-Control


• Alejandra Sel and Joshua Shepherd


• 7. Exploring the Roles of Emotions in Self-Control


• Andrea Scarantino


• 8. Children, Responsibility for Self-Control Failures, and Narrative Capacity


• Meghan 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 Perspectives


• Davide Rigoni, Naomi Vanlessen, Rossella Guerini, Mario De Caro, and Marcel Brass


• 11. Framing Temptations in Relation to the Self: Acceptance and Alienation


• Eric Funkhouser and Jennifer C. Veilleux


• 12. Shaping Our Mental Lives: On the Value of Mental Self-Control and Mental Self-Regulation


• Dorothea 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 Risk


• Katherine Hawley


• 16. Self-Control and Deliberate Ignorance: On Ignoring Information We Ought to Know and Processing Information We Shouldn't


• Sammy Basu and James Friedrich


• 17. Self-Control, Co-Operation, and Intention's Authority


• Lilian 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-Control


• David Shoemaker


• 21. Negligence and Social Self-Governance


• Manuel R. Vargas


• 22. Frankfurt and the Problem of Self-Control


• Ryan Cummings and Adina L. Roskies


• 23. Self-Control, Mental Time Travel and the Temporally Extended Self


• Erica Cosentino

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).