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Agency and answerability : selected essays / Gary Watson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Watson, Gary, 1943- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Agent (Philosophy).
- Free will and determinism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 377 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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:
- Free agency
- Skepticism about weakness of will
- Disordered appetites : addiction, compulsion, and dependence
- Volitional necessities
- The work of the will
- Free action and free will
- Soft libertarianism and hard compatibilism
- Responsibility and the limits of evil : variations on a strawsonian theme
- Two faces of responsibility
- Reasons and responsibility
- Excusing addiction.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [351]-365) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-927228-X
- 1-282-73064-9
- 9786612730641
- 0-19-156923-2
- OCLC:
- 654103908
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