My research asks how creatures like us manage to act over time. A single capacity — vigilance — runs through most of it: the work of keeping track of ourselves across scattered episodes of thought and action, and of trusting ourselves enough to commit to plans at all. That core opens outward into the ethics of negligence and forgetting, the folk concept of free will, the dynamics of the wandering mind, the foundations of self-control, and the methodology of the sciences that study these things.
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