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Aspects of agency : decisions, abilities, explanations, and free will /

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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 respon...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mele, Alfred R., 1951- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Subjects:
Agent (Philosophy)
Act (Philosophy)
Free will and determinism.
Ethics.
Personal Autonomy
Ethics
Action (Philosophie)
Libre arbitre et déterminisme.
Morale.
ethics (philosophy)
PHILOSOPHY > Movements > Humanism.
Free will and determinism
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Deciding to act
  • Actions, explanations, and causes
  • Agents' abilities
  • Free will and moral responsibility: does either require the other?
  • Is what you decide ever up to you?
  • Arbitrary decisions and the problem of present luck
  • Complete control and disappearing agents
  • Libertarianism and human agency
  • Two libertarian theories: or why event-causal libertarians should prefer my daring libertarian view to Robert Kane's view
  • Living without agent causation.