Randolph Clarke

Libertarian Accounts of Free Will

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 434g
• ISBN-13: 9780195306422
• ISBN-10: 0195306422
• Artikelnr.: 21298134

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Conclusion
References
Index