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	Podcast:		Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics
	Episode:		2015 Leverhulme Lecture (1): Self-Control: A problem of self-management
	Category:		Technology
	Duration:		00:39:04
	Publish Date:		2015-03-04 07:08:57
	Description:		Self-control problems typically arise from conflicts between smaller sooner and larger later rewards. In this lecture I suggest that we often fail successfully to navigate these problems because of our commitment to a conception of ourselves as rational agents who answer questions about ourselves by looking to the world. Despite the attractions of this conception, I argue that it undermines efforts at self-control and thereby our capacity to pursue the ends we value. I suggest we think of self-control as a problem of self-management, whereby we manipulate ourselves.
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