This comprehensive study offers a balanced assessment of libertarian accounts of free will. Bringing to bear recent work on action, causation, and causal explanation, Clarke defends a type of event-causal view from popular objections concerning rationality and diminished control. He subtly explores the extent to which event-causal accounts can secure the things for the sake of which we value free will, judging their success here to be limited. Clarke then sets out a highly original agent-causal account, one that integrates agent causation and nondeterministic event causation. He defends this view from a number of objections but argues that we should find the substance causation required by any agent-causal account to be impossible. Clarke concludes that if a broad thesis of incompatibilism is correct–one on which both free will and moral responsibility are incompatible with determinism–then no libertarian account is entirely adequate.
Randolph Clarke
Libertarian Accounts of Free Will [PDF ebook]
Libertarian Accounts of Free Will [PDF ebook]
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Lingua Inglese ● Formato PDF ● ISBN 9780198036234 ● Casa editrice Oxford University Press ● Pubblicato 2003 ● Scaricabile 6 volte ● Moneta EUR ● ID 2279627 ● Protezione dalla copia Adobe DRM
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