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Resolve is always effortful

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 April 2021

Olivier Massin Open the ORCID record for Olivier Massin [Opens in a new window]  and
Bastien Gauchot
Olivier Massin
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Institut de Philosophie, Université de Neuchâtel, 2000Neuchâtel, Switzerland. olivier.massin@unine.ch; bastien.gauchot@unine.chhttps://unine.academia.edu/OlivierMassin
Bastien Gauchot
Affiliation:
Institut de Philosophie, Université de Neuchâtel, 2000Neuchâtel, Switzerland. olivier.massin@unine.ch; bastien.gauchot@unine.chhttps://unine.academia.edu/OlivierMassin
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Abstract

Ainslie argues there are two main kinds of willpower: suppression, which is necessarily effortful, and resolve, which is not. We agree with the distinction but argue that all resolve is effortful. Alleged cases of effortless resolve are indeed cases of what Ainslie calls habits, namely stable results of prior uses of resolve.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 44 , 2021 , e47
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press

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