Libertarian Accounts of Free Will
Randolph Clarke
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.
సంవత్సరం:
2003
ప్రచురణకర్త:
Oxford University Press, USA
భాష:
english
పేజీల సంఖ్య:
254
ISBN 10:
1423756894
ISBN 13:
9781423756897
ఫైల్:
PDF, 989 KB
IPFS:
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english, 2003