This paper summarizes the historical and contemporary importance of mental action in
philosophy. Not every piece of mental activity is a mental action. A mental action is …

This paper argues for the normative significance of attention. Attention plays an important
role when describing an individual's mind and agency, and in explaining many central facts …

The ability of agents to commit to their plans and see them through is a core concept in the
philosophy of action (Bratman, 1987 (Bratman, 1987); Holton, 2009) and is considered to be …

In recent years, philosophers have identified a number of moral and psychological harms
associated with the attention economy (Aylsworth and Castro, In Journal of Applied …

This Element considers Kant's conception of self-control and the role it plays in his moral
philosophy. It offers a detailed interpretation of the different terms used by Kant to explain the …

Bermúdez suggests that agents use framing to succeed in self-control. This commentary
suggests that frames are effective in steering behavior because they modulate information …

Breaking one's dieting rule or resolution to quit smoking, procrastination, convenient lies,
even the failure of entire nations to follow through with plans to cut greenhouse gas …