Guard against temptation: Intrapersonal team reasoning and the role of intentions in exercising willpower

Sometimes we make a decision about an action we will undertake later and form an intention, but our judgment of what it is best to do undergoes a temporary shift when the time for action comes round. What makes it rational not to give in to temptation? Many contemporary solutions privilege diachronic rationality; in some “rational non‐reconsideration” (RNR) accounts once the agent forms an intention, it is rational not to reconsider. This leads...