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The Thief of Time - Philosophical Essays on Procrastination (Hardcover, New) Loot Price: R2,648
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The Thief of Time - Philosophical Essays on Procrastination (Hardcover, New): Chrisoula Andreou, Mark D. White

The Thief of Time - Philosophical Essays on Procrastination (Hardcover, New)

Chrisoula Andreou, Mark D. White

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When we fail to achieve our goals, procrastination is often the culprit. But how exactly is procrastination to be understood? It has been described as imprudent, irrational, inconsistent, and even immoral, but there has been no sustained philosophical debate concerning the topic.
This edited volume starts in on the task of integrating the problem of procrastination into philosophical inquiry. The focus is on exploring procrastination in relation to agency, rationality, and ethics-topics that philosophy is well-suited to address. Theoretically and empirically informed analyses are developed and applied with the aim of shedding light on a vexing practical problem that generates a great deal of frustration, regret, and harm. Some of the key questions that are addressed include the following: How can we analyze procrastination in a way that does justice to both its voluntary and its self-defeating dimensions? What kind of practical failing is procrastination? Is it a form of weakness of will? Is it the product of fragmented agency? Is it a vice? Given the nature of procrastination, what are the most promising coping strategies?

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United States
Release date: April 2010
First published: April 2010
Editors: Chrisoula Andreou (Associate Professor of Philosophy) • Mark D. White (Professor, Department of Political Science, Economics, and Philosophy)
Dimensions: 242 x 163 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 320
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-537668-5
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LSN: 0-19-537668-4
Barcode: 9780195376685

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