The chief aim of this project is to capitalize on the range of disciplines within the sciences and

philosophy that have made self-control a research focus by providing incentives and

opportunities for collaboration among them. The goal of fostering this collaboration is to

improve our knowledge of self-control and how to enhance it, in part by developing a more

integrated and complete understanding of the topic. Similar collaboration among different kinds

of scientists and philosophers has been a fruitful strategy with respect to other topics in recent

years-witness, for example, the scientific and philosophical work on free will and moral

judgrrient that has been produced by such collaboration-and the hope is that the project will

lead to the same kind of progress. The central component of the project is a set ofRFP

competitions to support informed and collaborative research on self-control in science and

philosophy. Other components include two conferences, a summer seminar, a cluster grant

program, and a post-doctoral fellowship opportunity.