1st Edition

Agency And Responsiblity Essays On The Metaphysics Of Freedom

By Laura Ekstrom Copyright 2001
272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

A companion volume to Free Will: A Philosophical Study, this new anthology collects influential essays on free will, including both well-known contemporary classics and exciting recent work. Agency and Responsibility: Essays on the Metaphysics of Freedom is divided into three parts. The essays in the first section address metaphysical issues concerning free will and causal determinism. The second... Read more
Introduction , The Metaphysical Issues: Free Will and Causal Determinism , The Incompatibility of Free Will and Determinism , Are We Free to Break the Laws? , A New Compatibilism , Causality and Determination , The Analysis of Freedom: Compatibilist and Libertarian Accounts , Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person , Free Agency , Identification, Decision, and Treating as a Reason , Human Freedom and the Self , Indeterminist Free Action , Responsibility, Luck and Chance: Reflections on Free Will and Indeterminism , Free Will and Moral Responsibility , Freedom and Resentment , The Reason View , Libertarianism and Frankfurt's Attack on the Principle of Alternative Possibilities , Rescuing Frankfurt-Style Cases1

Biography

Laura Ekstrom