Agency and Answerability: Selected Essays

Agency and Answerability: Selected Essays

by Gary Watson
Agency and Answerability: Selected Essays

Agency and Answerability: Selected Essays

by Gary Watson

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ISBN-13: 9780191569234
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 07/15/2004
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 467 KB

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University of California, Riverside

Table of Contents

Introduction1
Part IFreedom, Will, and Agency
1.Free Agency13
2.Skepticism about Weakness of Will33
3.Disordered Appetites: Addiction, Compulsion, and Dependence59
4.Volitional Necessities88
5.The Work of the Will123
Part IIAgency and Necessity
6.Free Action and Free Will161
7.Soft Libertarianism and Hard Compatibilism197
Part IIIResponsibility and Answerability
8.Responsibility and the Limits of Evil: Variations on a Strawsonian Theme219
9.Two Faces of Responsibility260
10.Reasons and Responsibility289
11.Excusing Addiction318
Bibliography351
Index367
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