A metaphysics for freedom /

Steward argues that determinism is incompatible with agency itself, not only the special human variety of agency, but also powers which can be accorded to animal agents. She offers a non-dualistic version of libertarianism, rooted in a conception of what biological forms of organisation might make p...

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Main Author: Steward, Helen
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.
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