Sarah Stroud and Christine Tappolet present eleven original essays on weakness of will, a topic bridging moral philosophy and philosophy of mind, and the subject of much current attention. An international team of established scholars and younger talent provide perspectives on all the key issues in this fascinating debate.

• Introduction


• 1: Michael Smith: Rational Capacities, or: How to Distinguish Recklessness, Weakness, and Compulsion


• 2: Richard Holton: How is Strength of Will Possible?


• 3: Philip Pettit: Akrasia, Collective and Individual


• 4: Christine Tappolet: Emotions and the Intelligibility of Akratic Action


• 5: Sarah Stroud: Weakness of Will and Practical Judgement


• 6: Sergio Tenenbaum: Accidie, Evaluation, and Motivation


• 7: Gary Watson: The Work of the Will


• 8: Ralph Wedgwood: Choosing Rationally and Choosing Correctly


• 9: Duncan MacIntosh: Prudence and the Temporal Structure of Practical Reasons


• 10: Joseph Heath: Practical Irrationality and the Structure of Decision Theory


• 11: Ronald de Sousa: Paradoxical Emotion: On sui generis Emotional Irrationality