Buch, Englisch, 1 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 677 g
Selected Essays
Buch, Englisch, 1 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 677 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-927227-3
Verlag: OUP Oxford
The first book by a major figure in the study of free will, action, and responsibility
* Classic papers brought together for the first time in a single volume
* Charts the progress of Watson's thought over three decades
DESCRIPTION:
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.
CONTENTS:
Introduction; I. Freedom, Will, and Agency; Free Agency; Skepticism about Weakness of Will; Disordered Appetites: Addiction, Compulsion, and Dependence; Volitional Necessities; The Work of the Will; II. Agency and Necessity; Free Action and Free Will; Soft Libertarianism and Hard Compatibilism; III. Responsibility and Answerability; Responsibility and the Limits of Evil: Variations on a Strawsonian Theme; Two Faces of Responsibility; Reasons and Responsibility; Excusing Addiction; Bibliography; Index
Zielgruppe
Scholars and students of philosophy working on action, free will, and responsibility
