Alfred R Mele

Aspects of Agency

Decisions, Abilities, Explanations, and Free Will

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Produktbeschreibung

Mele develops a view of paradigmatically free actions--including decisions--as indeterministically caused by their proximal causes. He mounts a masterful defense of this thesis that includes solutions to problems about luck and control widely discussed in the literature on free will and moral responsibility.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 481g
• ISBN-13: 9780190659974
• ISBN-10: 0190659971
• Artikelnr.: 47867186

Autorenporträt

Alfred Mele is the author of nine previous OUP books and over 200 articles. He directed the Big Questions in Free Will Project (2010-2013) and is currently the director of the Philosophy and Science of Self-Control Project.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Introduction
2. Deciding to Act
3. Actions, Explanations, and Causes
4. Agents' Abilities
5. Free Will and Moral Responsibility: Does Either Require the Other?
6. Is What You Decide Ever up to You?
7. Arbitrary Decisions and the Problem of Present Luck
8. Complete Control and Disappearing Agents
9. Libertarianism and Human Agency
10. Two Libertarian Theories: or Why Event-causal Libertarians Should Prefer My Daring Libertarian View to Robert Kane's View
11. Living Without Agent Causation
References
Index