ABSTRACT
This chapter begins by examining a number of suggested solutions to the problem of akrasia, and although it resists any attempt to use any of them as a general solution to all the interesting cases. It shows that the problem of akrasia strictly cannot arise, that it is logically impossible to decide that something is on balance the right thing to do, to be presented with an opportunity, to be free of physical and psychological constraints, and yet fail to do it. The chapter attempts to offer a single general solution, it was striking that each solution made sense of one group of akratic failures. It examines the process of deliberation that typically produces a considered general judgement about what on balance ought to be done. The rational agent will try to base decisions on the important desires and the well-grounded beliefs, rather than on the desires and beliefs that are merely strong.
