The Contours of Agency: Essays on Themes from Harry Frankfurt

by Sarah Buss, Lee Overton

Overview

A wide range of philosophical essays informed by the work of Harry Frankfurt, who offers a response to each essay.

The original essays in this book address Harry Frankfurt's influential writing on personal identity, love, value, moral responsibility, and the freedom and limits of the human will. Many of Frankfurt's deepest insights come from exploring the self-reflective nature of human agents and the psychic conflicts that self-reflection often produces. His work has informed discussions in metaphysics, metaethics, normative ethics, and action theory.

The authors, recognized for their own contributions to the understanding of human agency, defend their original philosophical positions at the same time that they respond to Frankfurt's. Each essay is followed by a response from Frankfurt, in which he clarifies and elaborates on his views.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780262528139
Publisher:	MIT Press
Publication date:	06/06/2002
Series:	A Bradford Book
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	382
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Sarah Buss is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan.

Lee Overton is Visiting Assistant Professor at Wake Forest University.

What People are Saying About This

Endorsement

Harry Frankfurt is that rare thinker whose work improves the thought of other philosophers, as is amply on display in this quite amazing collection.

—Stephen Darwall, John Dewey Collegiate Professor and Chair, Department of Philosophy, University of Michigan

From the Publisher

Contours of Agency promises to be one of the most important and most widely read anthologies in moral philosophy and the philosophy of mind in many years.

—Gideon A. Rosen, Department of Philosophy, Princeton University

Harry Frankfurt is that rare thinker whose work improves the thought of other philosophers, as is amply on display in this quite amazing collection.

—Stephen Darwall, John Dewey Collegiate Professor and Chair, Department of Philosophy, University of Michigan

John Dewey

Harry Frankfurt is that rare thinker whose work improves the thought of other philosophers, as is amply on display in this quite amazing collection.

Gideon A. Rosen

Contours of Agency promises to be one of the most important and most widely read anthologies in moral philosophy and the philosophy of mind in many years.

Stephen Darwall

Harry Frankfurt is that rare thinker whose work improves the thought of other philosophers, as is amply on display in this quite amazing collection.

Editorial Reviews

"Contours of Agency promises to be one of the most important and most widely read anthologies in moral philosophy and the philosophy of mind in many years."--Gideon Rosen, Department of Philosophy, Princeton University

& quot; Contours of Agency promises to be one of the most important and most widely read anthologies in moral philosophy and the philosophy of mind in many years.& quot; --Gideon Rosen, Department of Philosophy, Princeton University

" Contours of Agency promises to be one of the most important and most widely read anthologies in moral philosophy and the philosophy of mind in many years." --Gideon Rosen, Department of Philosophy, Princeton University

--Gideon Rosen, Department of Philosophy, Princeton University

From the Publisher