Table of Contents

Sarah Stroud and Christine Tappolet: 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

Reviews

`Review from previous edition ...a valuable resource for anyone interested in the nature of rational action.'
Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
`... an attractive volume ... [which] represents an important contribution to action theory, philosophy of mind and moral psychology, and should be read by anyone who works in these areas.'
Journal of Moral Philosophy