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According to a widely held view, the traits that are supposed to set our mind and the actions it originates apart from other animal minds and behaviours are the pursuit of global maximization and strategic planning.
These two traits are, however, deemed to be only imperfectly realized in us by theoreticians such as Elster and Ainslie. Qua global maximizers, the pattern of our time preferences should instantiate some exponential discount function of the future. But our instinctive time preferences seem to instantiate a hyperbolic one. Acting in agreement with a hyperbolic discount function is self-defeating. Being aware of our own imperfection, we are supposed, according to these authors, to have developed indirect means allowing us to overcome our primary inconsistency.
I contend that the domain of non-pathological self-defeating action is much broader than the domain that admits being explained in terms of the alleged hyperbolic pattern characterizing our discount function and that therefore we need to develop a more inclusive approach to deal with the problem of self-defeating action.
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Utilitarianism and Cognitivism, Strategies of Pre-commitment, Self-defeating action, Exponential and Hyperbolic Discounting, Weakness of the Will, Heuristics, Situated Rationality