ABSTRACT
In an extensive series of books and articles, George Ainslie has presented a strikingly interesting theory about human deliberation and choice behavior. It is one that, he argues, sheds considerable light both on an important kind of human irrationality and also on how it can be at least partially overcome. I propose to compare what he has to say about this irrationality and its partial solution with an account I have offered about a parallel kind of irrationality and its solution. For the most part I will focus on the discussion he offers in his most recent book (Ainslie 2001) and my own views as developed in two works (McClennen 1990, 1997).
