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Title

The thief of time : philosophical essays on procrastination / edited by Chrisoula Andreou & Mark D. White.

Publication

New York : Oxford University Press, c2010.

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Additional Authors

• Andreou, Chrisoula.
• White, Mark D., 1971-

Description

xiv, 300 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

When we fail to achieve our goals, procrastination is often the culprit. But how exactly is procrastination to be understood? This edited volume integrates the problem of procrastination into philosophical inquiry, exploring the relationship of procrastination to agency, rationality, and ethics.

Uniform Title

University press scholarship online.

Subject

Procrastination

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-292) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Procrastination: the basic impulse / George Ainslie -- Economic models of procrastination / Don Ross -- Is procrastination weakness of will? / Sarah Stroud -- Intransitive preferences, vagueness, and the structure of procrastination / Duncan MacIntosh -- Bad timing / Jon Elster -- Prudence, procrastination, and rationality / Olav Gjelsvik -- Procrastination and personal identity / Christine Tappolet -- The vice of procrastination / Sergio Tenenbaum -- Virtue for procrastinators / Elijah Millgram -- Procrastination as vice / Jennifer A. Baker -- Overcoming procrastination through planning / Frank Wieber & Peter M. Gollwitzer -- Coping with procrastination / Chrisoula Andreou -- Resisting procrastination : kantian autonomy and the role of the will / Mark D. White -- Procrastination and the extended will / Joseph Heath & Joel Anderson -- Procrastination and the law / Manuel A. Utset.

ISBN

• 9780195376685 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 0195376684 (hardback : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2009021750

OCLC

391351372

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library