Agency and Answerability: Selected Essays

by Gary Watson

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199272280
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	09/16/2004
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	1
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 5.44(h) x 0.86(d)

About the Author

University of California, Riverside

Table of Contents

IntroductionI. Freedom, Will, and Agency1. Free Agency2. Skepticism about Weakness of Will3. Disordered Appetites: Addiction, Compulsion, and Dependence4. Volitional Necessities5. The Work of the WillII. Agency and Necessity6. Free Action and Free Will7. Soft Libertarianism and Hard CompatibilismIII. Responsibility and Answerability8. Responsibility and the Limits of Evil: Variations on a Strawsonian Theme9. Two Faces of Responsibility10. Reasons and Responsibility11. Excusing AddictionBibliographyIndex