Abstract
W.N.: Good afternoon, we are here to speak about a very difficult topic: how to change habits. Peter Sloderdijk launched a book, translated into English as “You must change your life”. We were more respectful and put it in the form of a question: How do we change habits? But the presupposition of this question is the same, you cannot ask how you change a habit if you are not convinced that you must change habits, and life is habits, is it not? Well, of course, the background of our dialogue is Peirce’s conception of life and habits, but perhaps not only. We are here to meet and to speak in a series of online reflections. This is the third. A week from now we have a fourth. Without further ado, Professor Vincent Colapietro, whom you must know by now, is ready to speak about this topic, and we thank him very much for being with us once more.
Highlights
I want, to begin by talking about habit change in a very general way because it seems to me that the title of our exchange calls for that wider context
Can we change our habits – does our agency extend to the alteration of our habits and, if so, how is this most effectively accomplished? The focus of our concern is really the deliberate alteration of habits
The focus on the deliberate alteration of habits is very important, but I want, at the outset, to step back from that specific topic and spend some time considering more generally the processes of habit change
Summary
I want, to begin by talking about habit change in a very general way because it seems to me that the title of our exchange calls for that wider context. When you raise the question whether or how we can change habits, you consider agents who do or do not change their habits in a self-controlled way.
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