Managing temptation: comments on Chrisoula Andreou’s ‘Micromanagement and Poor Self-Control’

Journal article : Comment

In ‘Micromanagement and Poor Self-Control’, Chrisoula Andreou argues that some cases of poor self-control are best understood as arising from poor self-management, in particular a kind of intrapersonal micromanagement. She argues that this furnishes us with a better understanding of those cases than the orthodox foreign force paradigm does (on which poor self-control amounts to diminished self-control). I argue that we cannot do without the foreign force paradigm to explain the cases that Andreou discusses. I suggest a both/and approach on which poor self-management and diminished self-control together explain poor self-control.

Authors: Williamson, TL

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics Foundation
• Journal: Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics
• Volume: 17
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 256-265
• Publication date: 2024-06-29
• Acceptance date: 2024-03-29
• DOI: 10.23941/ejpe.v17i1.868
• EISSN: 1876-9098
• Language: English
• Keywords: self-control; cyclic preferences; planning; resolute choice
• Subtype: Comment