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| Introduction | |
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| The nature of para-cognitive attitudes | |
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| Pain as a sensory quality | |
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| Pleasure as a sensory quality | |
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| Beyond hedonism | |
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| An analysis of desire | |
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| The concept of emotion | |
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| A typology of emotion | |
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| Reason and value | |
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| Introduction: subjectivism and objectivism | |
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| The structure of reasons: internalism | |
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| An objective requirement? | |
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| The desire relativity of value | |
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| The rationality of para-cognitive attitudes | |
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| Weakness of will | |
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| Representational mechanisms | |
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| Rationality and temporal neutrality | |
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| The nature of a temporal bias | |
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| The irrationality of the bias towards the near | |
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| The irrationality of the bias towards the future | |
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| The dilemma as regards temporal neutrality | |
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| IV | |
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| Introduction: the bias towards oneself | |
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| Self and body | |
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| Psychological theories of our identity | |
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| Somatist theories of our identity | |
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| The identity of material bodies | |
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| The rational insignificance of identity and continuity | |
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| Self-concern and self-approval | |
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| Concern for and approval of others | |
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| Prudence: maximization or idealism? | |
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| The requirement of personal neutrality | |
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| Moral individualism: autonomy and agreement | |
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| The dilemma as regards personal neutrality | |
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| Rationality and responsibility | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Predictability and freedom | |
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| Compatibilist freedom of action | |
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| Compatibilist freedom of will | |
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| Responsibility and desert | |
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| The deontological element of responsibility | |
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| The emotive genesis of desert | |
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| The dilemma as regards responsibility | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Appendix: On being out of touch | |