dc.contributor.author	Schenkler, John
dc.date.accessioned	2022-10-07T16:25:46Z
dc.date.available	2022-10-07T16:25:46Z
dc.date.issued	2022
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/7676
dc.description.abstract	Often we make decisions whose purpose is to reduce the likelihood of our making bad decisions in the future—for example, by turning off my phone to make it more difficult for me to go on Tik Tok during the work day, or staying at home on a Friday instead of going to a party where I know my friends will be drinking to excess. These decisions seem essential, but they raise some philosophical questions. Here is one of them: What is the view that a person takes of her own future when she goes in for this kind of planning? And here is another: How does seeing ourselves as subject to temptation, in the way that this kind of planning presumes, not serve as an invitation to irresolution when tempting situations arise? In this essay, I show how the answers to these questions are mutually illuminating.	en_US
dc.language.iso	N/A	en_US
dc.publisher	Center for Philosophic Exchange,	en_US
dc.type	Article/Review	en_US
dcterms.title	Steering Clear of Trouble
dc.description.version	NA	en_US
refterms.dateFOA	2022-10-07T16:25:47Z
dc.description.institution	SUNY Brockport	en_US
dc.description.department	Philosophy	en_US
dc.description.degreelevel	N/A	en_US

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Philosophic Exchange
Philosophic Exchange is published by the Center for Philosophic Exchange, at the College at Brockport. The Center for Philosophic Exchange was founded by SUNY Chancellor Samuel Gould in 1969 to conduct a continuing program of philosophical inquiry, relating to both academic and public issues. Each year the Center hosts four speakers, and each speaker gives a public lecture that is intended for a general audience. These lectures are then published in this journal.

Steering Clear of Trouble