Aspects of agency : decisions, abilities, explanations, and free will / Alfred R. Mele.
2017
B105.A35 M438 2017
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Title
Aspects of agency : decisions, abilities, explanations, and free will / Alfred R. Mele.
ISBN
9780190660000 (electronic book)
Published
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Call Number
B105.A35 M438 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification
128.4
Summary
Libertarianism about free will is the conjunction of a negative thesis and a positive thesis. The negative thesis is that free will is incompatible with determinism. The positive thesis is that there are actions that are or involve exercises of free will - free actions, for short. While remaining neutral of the negative thesis, this work develops a detailed version of the positive thesis that represents paradigmatically free actions as indeterministically caused by their proximal causes and pays special attention to decisions caused in this way.
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Libertarianism about free will is the conjunction of a negative thesis and a positive thesis. The negative thesis is that free will is incompatible with determinism. The positive thesis is that there are actions that are or involve exercises of free will - free actions, for short. While remaining neutral of the negative thesis, this work develops a detailed version of the positive thesis that represents paradigmatically free actions as indeterministically caused by their proximal causes and pays special attention to decisions caused in this way.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on April 24, 2017).
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Print version: 9780190659974
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