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9780199272273

Agency and Answerability Selected Essays

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  • ISBN13:

    9780199272273

  • ISBN10:

    0199272271

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2004-09-16
  • Publisher: Clarendon Press

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Summary

Since the 1970s Gary Watson has published a series of brilliant and highly influential essays on human action, examining such questions as: in what ways are we free and not free, rational and irrational, responsible or not for what we do? Moral philosophers and philosophers of action will welcome this collection, representing one of the most important bodies of work in the field.

Author Biography

Gary Watson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside

Table of Contents

Introduction 1(12)
PART I FREEDOM, WILL, AND AGENCY
Free Agency
13(20)
Skepticism about Weakness of Will
33(26)
Disordered Appetites: Addiction, Compulsion, and Dependence
59(29)
Volitional Necessities
88(35)
The Work of the Will
123(38)
PART II AGENCY AND NECESSITY
Free Action and Free Will
161(36)
Soft Libertarianism and Hard Compatibilism
197(22)
PART III RESPONSIBILITY AND ANSWERABILITY
Responsibility and the Limits of Evil: Variations on a Strawsonian Theme
219(41)
Two Faces of Responsibility
260(29)
Reasons and Responsibility
289(29)
Excusing Addiction
318(33)
Bibliography 351(16)
Index 367

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