书名: Breakdown of Will
作者: George Ainslie (Author)
出版社: Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (March 19, 2001)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 052159300X
ISBN-13: 978-0521593007
Book Description
Ainslie argues that our responses to the threat of our own inconsistency determine the basic fabric of human culture. He suggests that individuals are more like populations of bargaining agents than like the hierarchal command structures envisaged by cognitive psychologists. This perspective helps us understand so much that is puzzling in human action and interaction: from self-defeating behaviors to willfulness, from pathological over-control and self-deception to subtler forms of behavior such as altruism, sadism, gambling, and the "social construction" of belief. A profound and expert account of human irrationality.
Review
"Breakdown of Will advances a novel position on motivation, the will, and the will's failures and successes." -- Alfred Mele, Department of Philosophy, Davidson College, North Carolina
"Breakdown of Will should interest many philosophers of pyschology...there are interesting and important ideas within the text, and it should spur fruitful philosophical discussion." -- Philosophy in Review
About the Author
George Ainslie began doing research on intertemporal conflict while still in training at Harvard Medical School, the Harvard Laboratories of Experimental Psychology, and the National Institutes of Health. The results have been published in journals ranging from The Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior and Behavioral and Brain Sciences to Law and Philosophy and the American Economic Review, as well as many book chapters and a book, Picoeconomics. He now does his work at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Coatesville, Pennsylvania, and maintains a website at picoeconomics.com.
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作者: George Ainslie (Author)
出版社: Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (March 19, 2001)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 052159300X
ISBN-13: 978-0521593007
Book Description
Ainslie argues that our responses to the threat of our own inconsistency determine the basic fabric of human culture. He suggests that individuals are more like populations of bargaining agents than like the hierarchal command structures envisaged by cognitive psychologists. This perspective helps us understand so much that is puzzling in human action and interaction: from self-defeating behaviors to willfulness, from pathological over-control and self-deception to subtler forms of behavior such as altruism, sadism, gambling, and the "social construction" of belief. A profound and expert account of human irrationality.
Review
"Breakdown of Will advances a novel position on motivation, the will, and the will's failures and successes." -- Alfred Mele, Department of Philosophy, Davidson College, North Carolina
"Breakdown of Will should interest many philosophers of pyschology...there are interesting and important ideas within the text, and it should spur fruitful philosophical discussion." -- Philosophy in Review
About the Author
George Ainslie began doing research on intertemporal conflict while still in training at Harvard Medical School, the Harvard Laboratories of Experimental Psychology, and the National Institutes of Health. The results have been published in journals ranging from The Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior and Behavioral and Brain Sciences to Law and Philosophy and the American Economic Review, as well as many book chapters and a book, Picoeconomics. He now does his work at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Coatesville, Pennsylvania, and maintains a website at picoeconomics.com.
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