Randolph Clarke 
Libertarian Accounts of Free Will [PDF ebook] 

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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.

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Language English ● Format PDF ● ISBN 9780198036234 ● Publisher Oxford University Press ● Published 2003 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 2279627 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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