In this thesis, I explore a number of epistemological issues concerning the relations between knowledge, belief and practical matters. In particular, I defend a view, which I call credal pragmatism. This view is compatible with moderate invariantism, a view that takes knowledge to depend exclusively on truth-relevant factors and to require an invariant epistemic standard of knowledge that can be quite easily met. The thesis includes a negative and a positive part. In the negative part (Ch. 1-4) I do two things: i) I critically examine some moderate invariantist accounts of the intuitive influence of practical factors on knowledge ascriptions, and ii) I provide a criticism of the idea that knowledge is the norm of practical reasoning. In Chapter 1, I provide a general overview of the issues that constitute the background for the views and arguments defended in my thesis. In particular, I provide a thorough discussion of two aspects of the relation between knowledge and practical matters: one is constituted by the practical factors' effects on knowledge ascriptions; the other is the intuitive normative role of knowledge in the regulation and assessments of action and practical reasoning. In Chapter 2, I consider and criticize Timothy Williamson's account according to which an alleged failure to acknowledge the distinction between knowing and knowing that one knows generates the intuition that knowledge ascriptions are sensitive to practical factors. In Chapter 3, I argue against the idea that practical reasoning is governed by a knowledge norm. The argument generalizes to other candidate epistemic norms of practical reasoning. In Chapter 4, I criticise a number of accounts which explain effects of practical factors on knowledge ascriptions in terms of the influence of practical factors on belief. These include the accounts of Brain Weatherson, Dorit Ganson, Kent Bach and Jennifer Nagel. In the positive part of the thesis (Ch. 5-6), I develop and argue for credal pragmatism, an original account of the nature and interaction of different doxastic attitudes and the role of practical factors in their rational regulation. On this view, given a certain fixed amount of evidence, the degree of credence of an adaptively rational agent varies in different circumstances depending on practical factors, while the threshold on the degree of credence necessary for outright belief remains fixed across contexts. This account distinguishes between two kinds of outright belief: occurrent belief, which depends on the actual degree of credence, and dispositional belief, which depends on the degree of credence in normal circumstances. In Chapter 5, I present the view and I show how credal pragmatism can explain the practical factors' effects on knowledge ascriptions. In Chapter 6, I develop a fallibilist account of several features about knowledge ascriptions including i) why in folk epistemological practices knowledge is often taken to be a necessary and sufficient epistemic condition for relying on a proposition in practical reasoning; ii) concessive knowledge attributions and related data; and iii) the infallibilist intuition that knowledge excludes error possibilities.

In this thesis, I apply teleofunctionalism to a current debate concerning the normativity of practical rationality. Assuming teleofunctionalism is the correct theory of mental phenomena, I argue that it can provide a promising account of the normativity of practical rationality. This claim is motivated by the idea that a capacity to represent internal states, external states, and relations between these states as reasons for action has a teleofunction, and is thus a source of normativity. This teleofunction is marked by a distinctive causal role that reason-representation plays in action. Although I argue that this capacity developed out of processes of biological natural selection, the content of representations of reasons for action produced by the mechanisms underlying this capacity need not be determined solely by biological selection. In an effort to naturalize normativity in this way, I discuss the relation between biological-functional normativity and the normativity of rationality itself.

A presente pesquisa trata de um estudo de caso que buscou entender o processo de formação de professores de Licenciatura em Química desenvolvido numa universidade comunitária do Rio Grande do Sul, constituindo, com base nas reformulações curriculares estabelecidas no curso, uma análise crítica do processo de formação estabelecido na relação com a constituição dos novos profissionais egressos, suas concepções e práticas. Para entender essa dinâmica desenvolvida, realizou-se a investigação de documentos, numa análise documental das bases legais e teóricas, que sustentaram a proposição de um novo currículo o qual passou a estar ancorado em princípios da Educação Química ao longo da formação docente. A fim de perceber as intenções envolvidas na reformulação curricular, foi realizada uma entrevista semiestruturada, com questões abertas, para os professores formadores constituintes do colegiado do curso, na qual as respostas foram analisadas por meio da Análise Textual Discursiva. Do mesmo modo, buscou-se compreender também como foi a aplicação prática dessa formação, aplicando-se um questionário fechado aos egressos que estiveram sujeitos a esse processo para que pudessem concordar ou discordar com os argumentos propostos, para a sua análise, a partir do que haviam vivenciado na sua formação. Ainda, por meio de questão aberta, puderam manifestar os aspectos favoráveis, aspectos desfavoráveis e possíveis sugestões a respeito do que foi vivido. Como resultados da investigação, denota-se a constante tensão envolvida na formação por meio do embate entre a racionalidade técnica e a racionalidade prática que se fundamentou a partir de um processo crítico-reflexivo. Esse fator foi essencial para a reformulação curricular, visando a constituição de um profissional capaz de formar sujeitos autônomos e ser um investigador da sua própria realidade. Na posição dos formadores, revela-se o entendimento da necessidade de desenvolverem um ensino prático-reflexivo para a formação docente e em estarem envolvidos num processo de formação contínua refletindo constantemente a respeito das situações propostas. Numa análise mista das respostas dos egressos, por meio de dados qualitativos e quantitativos pela Análise Textual Discursiva, revelou-se o entendimento da necessidade de ser o educador um mediador no processo de ensino-aprendizagem, pesquisador de uma prática reflexiva, capaz de relacionar os saberes técnicos aos saberes práticos. Desse modo, encontrando nas disciplinas de Educação Química a fundamentação de uma nova racionalidade para a formação docente. As categorias resultantes da pesquisa foram relacionadas a partir de um mosaico de ideias que se sobrepuseram e constituíram o novo emergente do processo formativo: o processo de Educação Química estabelecido para a formação docente articulado a uma nova concepção de educador químico capaz de desenvolver o ensino de Química voltado para a formação para a cidadania dos sujeitos. Assim, argumenta-se em favor de que a prática pedagógica vivenciada ao longo da formação acadêmica, na preparação para a docência em Química, concebida como processo crítico-reflexivo desenvolvido no educar pela pesquisa, possibilita a constituição da formação do docente como sujeito autônomo e comprometido com o processo de ensino-aprendizagem. Um processo envolvido por uma nova racionalidade que passa a ser o cerne da proposta, visando à constituição do educador químico como sujeito autônomo e comprometido com os princípios da Educação Química e os valores para a cidadania. / The present research deals with a case study that sought to understand the process of teacher education of a Licenciature in Chemistry developed at a community university in Rio Grande do Sul, starting from the curricular reformulations established in the course, making a critical analysis of the formation process established in the relation with the constitution of the new graduates, their conceptions and practices. In order to understand this dynamic, it was necessary to investigate documents, in a documentary analysis of the legal and theoretical bases, that supported the proposal of a new curriculum which began to be anchored in principles of the Chemical Education along the teacher formation. In order to understand the intentions involved in curriculum reformulation, a semi-structured interview was conducted, with open questions, for the teacher trainers constituents of the collegiate of the course where the answers were analyzed through the Discursive Textual Analysis. In the same way, it was also sought to understand how the practical application of this formation was applied by applying a closed questionnaire to the graduates who were subject to this process, so that they could agree or disagree with the arguments put forward, for your review from what they had experienced in their formation. Still, by way of open question, were able to express the favorable aspects, unfavorable aspects and possible suggestions about what was experienced. As results of the investigation the constant tension involved in the formation is denoted by the clash between the technical rationality and the practical rationality that was based on a critical-reflexive process. This factor was essential for curricular reformulation aiming at the constitution of a professional capable of forming autonomous subjects and being a researcher of their own reality. In the position of the teacher trainers reveals an understanding of the need to develop a practical and reflexive teaching for teacher education and to be involved in a continuous formation process constantly reflecting on the proposed situations. In a mixed analysis of the answers of the graduates, through qualitative and quantitative data by the Discursive Textual Analysis revealed the understanding of the need to be the educator a mediator in the teaching-learning process, researcher of a reflective practice, able to relate technical knowledge to practical knowledge. Thus, finding in the disciplines of Chemical Education the basis for a new rationality for teacher education. The categories resulting from the research were related from a mosaic of ideas that overlapped and constituted the new emergent of the formative process: the process of Chemical Education established for teacher training articulated to a new conception of chemical educator able to develop the teaching of Chemistry aimed for formation for citizenship of subjects. Thus, it is argued in favor of that the pedagogical practice lived throughout the academic formation, in the preparation for the teaching in Chemistry conceived as a critical-reflexive process developed in educating by the research, enables the constitution of teacher training as an autonomous subject and committed to the teaching-learning process. A process involved by a new rationality that becomes the core of the proposal aiming at the constitution of the chemical educator, as an autonomous subject and committed to the principles of Chemical Education and values for citizenship.

<p>A classic question in moral philosophy asks "Why be moral?" In other words, what reason or motive do people have to act in accordance with the requirements of morality? In the tradition of Thomas Hobbes and David Hume, this project defends the thesis that nearly all people have reason to be moral nearly all of the time, because moral conduct generally serves individuals' desires and needs. It's argued, first, that a reason for action must be capable of motivating an agent to act, and second, that reasons for action motivate through the desires of the agent. This view is defended against the objection that reasons for action are not contingent on any particular agent's desires. Turning to morality, the case is made that the desires of an individual can be consonant with the demands of morality in any of three possible ways: (1) moral action serves one's other-regarding desires to help others; (2) moral action serves one's moral desires, which are formed when one internalizes the moral norms of his or her community; and (3) moral action serves one's self-regarding desires to avoid punishments that one incurs by violating moral norms. In the final chapter, it is acknowledged that the moral norms which happen to prevail in a society sometimes conflict with the moral convictions of individuals. Under certain conditions, however, it can be rational for nearly all members of a society to collectively change existing moral norms. Furthermore, it is within the power of individuals to foment the conditions for collective transitions to alternative moral norms.</p> / Dissertation

Orientador: Mauricio Compiani / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Geociencias / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-07T04:54:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Bretones_PauloSergio_D.pdf: 3534457 bytes, checksum: ebaa76eeee724fe3a3d1e6dc753b9edf (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006 / Resumo: Este trabalho analisa o avanço propiciado por um projeto de fonnação continuada para professores do ensino fundamental com o tema observação do céu em Astronomia, levando-se em conta as especificidades do conhecimento, o referencial do professor reflexivo e as práticas de tutoria. Para isto, foi realizado um curso de Astronomia para professores de Ciências e Geografia de 5' a 8' séries, com 46 horas, promovido em 2002 pelo Instituto Superior de Ciências Aplicadas (ISCA) em Limeira. Após o curso foi estabelecido um grupo de estudos e realizadas cinco reuniões.Os dados foram obtidos por meio de avaliações, entrevistas, relatos dos participantes e registros das aulas e reuniões. São apresentados movimentos de sugestões de atividades extrac1asse, ações pessoais dos participantes sem seus alunos, relatos de ações extrac1asse e desenvolvimento de conteúdos astronômicos em aula, ações na prática pedagógica e reflexões dos participantes junto ao professor/pesquisador na avaliação de tais movimentos.Foram investigadas as mobilizações em ações e concepções dos participantes e o papel da, racional idade prática ao longo do programa.Verificou-se que o tema da observação do céu tem caracteristicas específicas na Astronomia que levam a uma prática escolar também específica em que os conteúdos e procedimentos por serem calcados na observação e sua representação solicitam uma prática escolar baseada na racionalidade prática. Mesmo um curso de fonnação de professores baseado inicialmente na racionalidade técnica, ao dar conta da observação do céu, adentra na racionalidade prática e no desenvolvimento próprio de princípios que norteiam a aquisição e o ensino dos conhecimentos referentes à observação do céu. Também se verificou que, para a observação do céu, o modelo da racionalidade prática no referencial do professor reflexivo e ações de tutoria levam à aquisição de conhecimentos, mudanças de concepções e ações extraclasse. Evidenciaram-se os aspectos da prática como ponto de partida, eixo e sua relação com a teoria. Particularmente ao conteúdo de movimento diário da esfera celeste, estabeleceram-se os princípios de relação da altura do pólo com a latitude geográfica, obliqüidade, continuidade do movimento, circularidade, tridimencionalidade e ciclicidade. Também se evidenciaram os aspectos de criatividade e desenvolvimento do pensamento prático dos participantes, com fatores que levam à caracterização de saberes plurais, que têm temporal idade e mostrando que a aquisição de conhecimento é seletiva, ou seja, situada e hierarquizada / Abstract: This work analyzes the advance spread by a project il! the continuing education training of high school teachers who teach the fundamentaIs of Astronomical sky observation, taking into account specitic knowledge, the reflective teacher &amework and tutoring practice.Base on this, a 46 hour Astronomy course was offered to Science and Geography teachers in the four last years of high school organized in 2002 by the Instituto Superior de Ciências Aplicadas in Limeira, Brazil. Following the course a study group was established and tive meetings were held.The data was obtained through assessments, interviews, and accounts by the teachers and records from the classes and meetings. Examples are: suggestions, personal actions of the teachers without their students, accounts of extracurricular activities and development of astronomical contents in class, actions in the pedagogical practices and reflections of the teachers with the teacher/researcher towards the assessment of such changes are shown.The actions and conceptual changes and the role of the practical rationality were then investigated. It was established that sky observation has specitic features that lead to an equally specific school practice, in which the contents and procedures based on observations and their representation point towards a more practical rationality. Even in a training course for teachers based on technical rationality, the introduction of sky observation deepens the practical rationality and the development of principIes that guide the acquisition and the teaching of knowledge about sky observation.It was also established that for sky observation the model of practical rationality, within the reflective teacher theoretical &amework and tutorial actions, leads to knowledge acquisition, conceptual changes and extracurricular activities.It was clear that the aspects of practice act as starting point, axis, and a relation with the theory. In particularly with regard to the daily motion of celestial sphere content, the principIes of relation of the elevation of the celestial pole to geographic latitude was established, obliquity, continuity of motion, circularity, tri-dimensionality and cyclicity. AIso established were the aspects of creativity and development of practical thinking of the participants, with factors that lead to the characterization of pluraIs knowledge, that have temporality and show that the knowledge acquisition is selective or situated and hierarchical / Doutorado / Doutor em Ensino e História de Ciências da Terra

Étant pourtant un phénomène extrêmement répandu, la procrastination a très peu fait l’objet d’études philosophiques. Inversement, la faiblesse de la volonté et les différents phénomènes qu’on lui rattache sont encore aujourd’hui étudiés en profondeur comme des cas paradigmatiques de défaillance de la rationalité pratique. Or, la procrastination présente un cas de défaillance de la rationalité pratique particulier dans notre rapport avec le temps, rapport qui est très souvent laissé de côté dans l’étude de la faiblesse de la volonté. Après avoir présenté dans le premier chapitre les phénomènes majeurs associés à la faiblesse de la volonté et les problématiques qu’ils soulèvent, dans le deuxième chapitre, nous examinerons leurs liens avec la procrastination. Nous verrons comment la procrastination, avec son emphase sur le caractère temporel de notre agentivité, permet de mieux saisir et d'expliquer les problématiques soulevées par la faiblesse de la volonté en les insérant dans un cadre explicatif plus large. / Even if procrastination is extremely widespread, it is still rarely the subject of philosophical study. Conversely, weakness of the will and the various phenomena which are related to it are still extensively studied as paradigmatic cases of failure of our practical rationality. However, procrastination seems to be a failure of our practical rationality related to our relationship with time, a relationship that is often overlooked in the study of weakness of will. After presenting, in the first chapter, the major phenomena associated with weakness of will and the issues they raise, we will examine their relationship with procrastination in the second chapter. We'll see how procrastination, with its emphasis on the temporal nature of our agency helps us to better understand and explain the issues raised by weakness of will by inserting them in a broader explanatory framework.

O problema de pesquisa que orientou o desenvolvimento deste trabalho foi compreender o que sustenta a racionalidade prática do isolamento institucional como medida para adolescentes autores de atos infracionais. Para investigação do problema proposto, o objeto de pesquisa são as teorias nativas sobre o ato infracional e sobre a medida socioeducativa elaboradas no raciocínio prático dos atores responsáveis pela execução da medida de internação. Adotando a etnometodologia como principal referencial teórico-metodológico, o objetivo é compreender quais os procedimentos interpretativos envolvidos no emprego das teorias nativas pelos atores na produção da relatabilidade racional de suas atividades. A análise envolve interpretações sobre as informações coletadas em uma pesquisa empírica realizada nas organizações responsáveis pela execução da medida de internação em São Paulo: o Fórum Brás e a Fundação CASA. Como forma de acessar as teorias nativas produzidas nos raciocínios práticos dos atores responsáveis pela execução da internação, o material coletado consiste principalmente em entrevistas e documentos institucionais. As interpretações elaboradas sobre as informações coletadas indicam que a racionalidade prática do isolamento institucional é sustentada por procedimentos interpretativos, empregados de maneira análoga pelos juízes e pelos funcionários das unidades de internação, que transformam fatores estruturais, externos à ação elaborados nas teorias nativas como causas do ato infracional , em características individuais transformáveis pela ação institucional e pela vontade do adolescente. No caso dos juízes, o emprego do critério da crítica do adolescente para decidir sobre o término da internação torna o isolamento institucional plausível como resposta ao ato infracional porque essa medida irá transformar e avaliar ao longo do tempo o desenvolvimento desse atributo individual e moral, expressão do pertencimento social do adolescente e tido como determinante da prática infracional. No caso dos funcionários da Fundação CASA, esse procedimento interpretativo se manifesta na operação de interpretar o comportamento do adolescente na unidade como índice de sua transformação para fora da instituição. Ao estabelecer continuidade entre dentro e fora, esse procedimento torna possível sustentar o raciocínio de que quanto mais submetido o adolescente está à instituição, mas preparado ele está para sair dela. Durante o processo de execução da medida, o principal meio de objetivação desses procedimentos são os relatórios elaborados pelas equipes das unidades de internação e utilizados pelos juízes, na grande maioria dos casos, como fundamento exclusivo para formação da decisão sobre o término da medida. Os relatórios são o produto da construção narrativa do fato da transformação do adolescente como efeito da medida, trabalho que envolve, como elemento central, a avalição da crítica do adolescente e de sua estruturação infracional. / The development of this work was guided by the following research question: What upholds the practical rationality of the institutional isolation as an intervention for young offenders? To carry out this investigation, the object of inquiry were the folk theories about delinquency and about punishment employed in the practical reasoning of the actors responsible for the detention of young offenders. From an ethnomethodological perspective, the objective is to understand which interpretive procedures are involved in the actors use of folk theories as means to produce the rational accountability of their activities. The empirical research was conducted at the organizations responsible for the implementation of the institutional isolation in Sao Paulo. In order to access the folk theories, the empirical data consists mostly of interviews and institutional documents. The result of the analysis is that the practical rationality of the institutional isolation of delinquents is sustained by interpretive procedures adopted analogously by both the judges and the detention centers staff. These interpretive procedures transforms structural attributes, external to action formulated as causes of the offense in the folk theories into individual characteristics that can be changed by the institutional action and by the adolescents will. On the one hand, the judges use of the adolescents criticism (showing repentance and empathy for the victim) as a criteria for deciding when to release them from detention, makes the institutional isolation reasonable since it will act upon and evaluate over time the development of this individual and moral attribute, the lack of which is seen as a consequence of the adolescents social background and the cause of the offense. On the other hand, the detention center staff interpret the adolescents behavior in the institution as an index of their transformation for the life outside the institution. By establishing a continuity between inside and outside, they make it possible to sustain the logic that the more submitted the adolescent is to the institution, more prepared he is to leave it. During the implementation of the institutional isolation, the main resource used to objectify these procedures are the reports produced by the staff and used as grounds for the judicial decision to end the detention. The reports are the product of the narrative construction of the fact of the adolescents transformation as a consequence of the detention.

O problema de pesquisa que orientou o desenvolvimento deste trabalho foi compreender o que sustenta a racionalidade prática do isolamento institucional como medida para adolescentes autores de atos infracionais. Para investigação do problema proposto, o objeto de pesquisa são as teorias nativas sobre o ato infracional e sobre a medida socioeducativa elaboradas no raciocínio prático dos atores responsáveis pela execução da medida de internação. Adotando a etnometodologia como principal referencial teórico-metodológico, o objetivo é compreender quais os procedimentos interpretativos envolvidos no emprego das teorias nativas pelos atores na produção da relatabilidade racional de suas atividades. A análise envolve interpretações sobre as informações coletadas em uma pesquisa empírica realizada nas organizações responsáveis pela execução da medida de internação em São Paulo: o Fórum Brás e a Fundação CASA. Como forma de acessar as teorias nativas produzidas nos raciocínios práticos dos atores responsáveis pela execução da internação, o material coletado consiste principalmente em entrevistas e documentos institucionais. As interpretações elaboradas sobre as informações coletadas indicam que a racionalidade prática do isolamento institucional é sustentada por procedimentos interpretativos, empregados de maneira análoga pelos juízes e pelos funcionários das unidades de internação, que transformam fatores estruturais, externos à ação elaborados nas teorias nativas como causas do ato infracional , em características individuais transformáveis pela ação institucional e pela vontade do adolescente. No caso dos juízes, o emprego do critério da crítica do adolescente para decidir sobre o término da internação torna o isolamento institucional plausível como resposta ao ato infracional porque essa medida irá transformar e avaliar ao longo do tempo o desenvolvimento desse atributo individual e moral, expressão do pertencimento social do adolescente e tido como determinante da prática infracional. No caso dos funcionários da Fundação CASA, esse procedimento interpretativo se manifesta na operação de interpretar o comportamento do adolescente na unidade como índice de sua transformação para fora da instituição. Ao estabelecer continuidade entre dentro e fora, esse procedimento torna possível sustentar o raciocínio de que quanto mais submetido o adolescente está à instituição, mas preparado ele está para sair dela. Durante o processo de execução da medida, o principal meio de objetivação desses procedimentos são os relatórios elaborados pelas equipes das unidades de internação e utilizados pelos juízes, na grande maioria dos casos, como fundamento exclusivo para formação da decisão sobre o término da medida. Os relatórios são o produto da construção narrativa do fato da transformação do adolescente como efeito da medida, trabalho que envolve, como elemento central, a avalição da crítica do adolescente e de sua estruturação infracional. / The development of this work was guided by the following research question: What upholds the practical rationality of the institutional isolation as an intervention for young offenders? To carry out this investigation, the object of inquiry were the folk theories about delinquency and about punishment employed in the practical reasoning of the actors responsible for the detention of young offenders. From an ethnomethodological perspective, the objective is to understand which interpretive procedures are involved in the actors use of folk theories as means to produce the rational accountability of their activities. The empirical research was conducted at the organizations responsible for the implementation of the institutional isolation in Sao Paulo. In order to access the folk theories, the empirical data consists mostly of interviews and institutional documents. The result of the analysis is that the practical rationality of the institutional isolation of delinquents is sustained by interpretive procedures adopted analogously by both the judges and the detention centers staff. These interpretive procedures transforms structural attributes, external to action formulated as causes of the offense in the folk theories into individual characteristics that can be changed by the institutional action and by the adolescents will. On the one hand, the judges use of the adolescents criticism (showing repentance and empathy for the victim) as a criteria for deciding when to release them from detention, makes the institutional isolation reasonable since it will act upon and evaluate over time the development of this individual and moral attribute, the lack of which is seen as a consequence of the adolescents social background and the cause of the offense. On the other hand, the detention center staff interpret the adolescents behavior in the institution as an index of their transformation for the life outside the institution. By establishing a continuity between inside and outside, they make it possible to sustain the logic that the more submitted the adolescent is to the institution, more prepared he is to leave it. During the implementation of the institutional isolation, the main resource used to objectify these procedures are the reports produced by the staff and used as grounds for the judicial decision to end the detention. The reports are the product of the narrative construction of the fact of the adolescents transformation as a consequence of the detention.

Étant pourtant un phénomène extrêmement répandu, la procrastination a très peu fait l’objet d’études philosophiques. Inversement, la faiblesse de la volonté et les différents phénomènes qu’on lui rattache sont encore aujourd’hui étudiés en profondeur comme des cas paradigmatiques de défaillance de la rationalité pratique. Or, la procrastination présente un cas de défaillance de la rationalité pratique particulier dans notre rapport avec le temps, rapport qui est très souvent laissé de côté dans l’étude de la faiblesse de la volonté. Après avoir présenté dans le premier chapitre les phénomènes majeurs associés à la faiblesse de la volonté et les problématiques qu’ils soulèvent, dans le deuxième chapitre, nous examinerons leurs liens avec la procrastination. Nous verrons comment la procrastination, avec son emphase sur le caractère temporel de notre agentivité, permet de mieux saisir et d'expliquer les problématiques soulevées par la faiblesse de la volonté en les insérant dans un cadre explicatif plus large. / Even if procrastination is extremely widespread, it is still rarely the subject of philosophical study. Conversely, weakness of the will and the various phenomena which are related to it are still extensively studied as paradigmatic cases of failure of our practical rationality. However, procrastination seems to be a failure of our practical rationality related to our relationship with time, a relationship that is often overlooked in the study of weakness of will. After presenting, in the first chapter, the major phenomena associated with weakness of will and the issues they raise, we will examine their relationship with procrastination in the second chapter. We'll see how procrastination, with its emphasis on the temporal nature of our agency helps us to better understand and explain the issues raised by weakness of will by inserting them in a broader explanatory framework.

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