ABSTRACT
Akrasia involves acting against one's better judgment because of contrary desire. It thus poses severe difficulties for accounts of desire and the relations between desire and action, rationality, and evaluation-but it also affords an opportunity for a rich understanding of these notions and relations. I shall here investigate whether akrasia requires that there be multiple objects of desire. In doing this we will get clearer about the nature and individuation of objects of desire-as well as about some features of hedonism and maximization, also important for an understanding of desire.
