Autonomous Agents

PART I 1. Introduction: Self-Control and Personal Autonomy 2. Better Judgement: Nature and Function 3. Exercising Self-Control: A Motivational Problem 4. Self-Control, Akrasia, and Second-Order Desires 5. Self-Control and Belief 6. Self-Control, Akrasia, and Emotion 7. The Upper Reaches of Self-Control and the Ideally Self-Controlled Person PART II 8. Transition: From Self-Control to Autonomy 9. Psychological Autonomy and Personal History 10. Compatibilist Autonomy and Autonomous Action 11. Problems for Libertarians 12. Incompatibilist Autonomy and Autonomous Action 13. Assessing the Denial of Autonomy References Index