Humans are prolific procrastinators. It’s easy to make plans and throw dates on your calendar, and yet it’s practically inevitable that you’ll let some deadlines fly by with reckless abandon. Our ...

In 1908, a young writer and novelist, Franz Kafka, was promoted to the position of chief clerk at the Workers’ Accident Insurance Institute in Prague. Prior to his promotion, Kafka would lament about ...

Akrasia: weakness of will. In the New York Times Magazine yesterday, John Tierney has a fascinating article on the phenomenon of decision fatigue. Based his new book, Willpower: Rediscovering the ...

Many people have encountered cases where they need to control themselves in order to meet their long-term goals, such as 'I have to work this weekend to finish my work by the deadline.' There are many ...

Technology addiction triggers akrasia, a kind of procrastination in which people choose to dwell on relatively meaningless activities instead of tackling important responsibilities, according to a ...

Philosophical Studies: An International Journal for Philosophy in the Analytic Tradition, Vol. 166, No. 3 (December 2013), pp. 529-552 (24 pages) Can akrasia be rational? Can it be rational to resist ...

This article explores the problem of moral and criminal responsibility through an examination of Aristotle's account in Book VII of the "Nicomachean Ethics" of the relation between practical reason ...

Instead of writing the book, Hugo spent the next year pursuing other projects, entertaining guests, and delaying his work on the text. Hugo's publisher had become frustrated by his repeated ...

How our internet use is prone to the ancient vice of akrasia. The Stoic philosopher Seneca once wrote of the gladiatorial games in Rome, “Unhappy that I am, how have I deserved that I must look on ...