Personal Autonomy: New Essays on Personal Autonomy and its Role in Contemporary Moral Philosophy

by Edited by James Stacey Taylor

• ISBN13: 9780521837965
• ISBN10: 0521837960
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-01-10
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Autonomy has recently become one of the central concepts in contemporary moral philosophy and has generated much debate over its nature and value. This is the first volume to bring together original essays that address the theoretical foundations of the concept of autonomy, as well as essays that investigate the relationship between autonomy and moral responsibility, freedom, political philosophy, and medical ethics. Written by some of the most prominent philosophers working in these areas today, this book represents cutting-edge research on the nature and value of autonomy that will be essential reading for a broad swathe of philosophers as well as many psychologists.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	vii
Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	1	(32)
James Stacey Taylor
PART I. THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO PERSONAL AUTONOMY
Planning Agency, Autonomous Agency	33	(25)
Michael E. Bratman
Autonomy without Free Will	58	(29)
Bernard Berofsky
Autonomy and the Paradox of Self-Creation: Infinite Regresses, Finite Selves, and the Limits of Authenticity	87	(22)
Robert Noggle
Agnostic Autonomism Revisited	109	(15)
Alfred R. Mele
Feminist Intuitions and the Normative Substance of Autonomy	124	(19)
Paul Benson
Autonomy and Personal Integration	143	(19)
Laura Waddell Ekstrom
Responsibility, Applied Ethics, and Complex Autonomy Theories	162	(21)
Nomy Arpaly
PART II. AUTONOMY, FREEDOM, AND MORAL RESPONSIBILITY
Autonomy and Free Agency	183	(22)
Marina A. L. Oshana
The Relationship between Autonomous and Morally Responsible Agency	205	(30)
Michael McKenna
Alternative Possibilities, Personal Autonomy, and Moral Responsibility	235	(23)
Ishtiyaque Haji
Freedom within Reason	258	(19)
Susan Wolf
PART III. THE EXPANDING ROLE OF PERSONAL AUTONOMY
Procedural Autonomy and Liberal Legitimacy	277	(22)
John Christman
The Concept of Autonomy in Bioethics: An Unwarranted Fall from Grace	299	(11)
Thomas May
Who Deserves Autonomy, and Whose Autonomy Deserves Respect?	310	(20)
Tom L. Beauchamp
Autonomy, Diminished Life, and the Threshold for Use	330	(17)
R. G. Frey
Index	347