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Author:
Mele, Alfred R., 1951- author.
Title:
Aspects of agency : decisions, abilities, explanations, and free will / Alfred R. Mele.
Publisher:
Oxford University Press,
Copyright Date:
2017
Description:
x, 251 pages ; 25 cm
Subject:
Agent (Philosophy)
Act (Philosophy)
Free will and determinism.
Ethics.
Act (Philosophy)
Agent (Philosophy)
Ethics.
Free will and determinism.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Deciding to act -- Actions, explanations, and causes -- Agents' abilities -- Free will and moral responsibility: does either require the other? -- Is what you decide ever up to you? -- Arbitrary decisions and the problem of present luck -- Complete control and disappearing agents -- Libertarianism and human agency -- Two libertarian theories: or why event-causal libertarians should prefer my daring libertarian view to Robert Kane's view -- Living without agent causation.
ISBN:
0190659971
9780190659974
OCLC:
(OCoLC)957414456
LCCN:
2016038292
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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