"Lec 11 - Weakness of the Will and Procrastination"Philosophy and the Science of Human Nature (PHIL 181) Professor Gendler begins with a review of the situationist critique of virtue ethics,which claims that character plays only a minimal role in determining behavior. She then presents some countervailing evidence suggesting that certain personality traits appear to be quite stable over time, including work by Walter Mischel showing a strong correlation between an early capacity to delay gratification and subsequent academic and social success. Delayed gratification remains the topic of discussion as Professor Gendler shifts to Aristotle's account of weakness of will and contemporary behavioral economics work on hyperbolic discounting. In the final segment of the lecture, drawing on work by Aristotle, Walter Mischel, George Ainslie and Robert Nozick, she presents several strategies for self-regulation: preventing yourself from acting on the temptation, manipulating incentive structures, and acting on principles. 00:00 - Chapter 1. Situationism, Virtue Ethics and Character Recap 05:43 - Chapter 2. Aristotle on Weakness of Will 14:04 - Chapter 3. Incontinence and Hyperbolic Discounting 23:39 - Chapter 4: How to Self-Regulate Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: http://oyc.yale.edu This course was recorded in Spring 2011.
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Lec 1- Introduction to Philosophy and the Science of Human Nature
Lec 2 -The Ring of Gyges: Morality and Hypocrisy
Lec 5 - The Well-Ordered Soul: Happiness and Harmony
Lec 6 -The Disordered Soul: Thémis and PTSD
Lec 7 - Flourishing and Attachment
Lec 8 - Flourishing and Detachment
Lec 12 - Utilitarianism and its Critiques
Lec 15 - Empirically-informed Responses
Lec 16 - Philosophical Puzzles
Lec 19 - Contract & Commonwealth: Thomas Hobbes