Causation and free will / Carolina Sartorio.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sartorio, Carolina, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Causation.

Free will and determinism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 188 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Summary:

Carolina Sartorio argues that only the actual causes of our behaviour matter to our freedom. Causation has some important features that make it a responsibility-grounding relation, and actual causes reflect the agents' sensitivity to reasons. Sartorio connects debates on causation and the problem of free will in new and illuminating ways.

Contents:

Acknowledgments. Introduction. 1 The grounds of freedom : The question about grounding

The alternative-possibilities answer

The actual-sequences answer : The positive grounding claim

The role of causal facts

The claim that responsibility is grounded in causation

The negative grounding claim

The supervenience claim

The scope of supervenience claim

Conclusions. 2 The underlying metaphysics: the fundamentals: Part 1 The metaphysics behind the positive grounding claim : Omissions

Overdetermination

Conclusions. Part 2 The metaphysics behind the negative grounding claim : The threat to the negative grounding claim

Apparent counterexamples to supervenience

Fischer and Ravizza's view

In defense of supervenience

The extrinsicness of causation

The argument from derivative responsibility

Responsibility for outcomes

Conclusions. 3 The underlying metaphysics: completing the picture : Lucky

Difference-making

Intrasitivity

Conclusions

The right kind of cause : Part 1 The appeal to reasons-sensitivity: a puzzle and some failed solutions : Reasons-sensitivity

Another puzzle about Frankfurt cases

Existing solutions to the puzzle: the main proposals

Existing solutions to the puzzle: the main problems

Part 2 Causal reasons-sensitivity : Toward a new solution to the puzzle

First stage: neuroscientist-free scenarios

Second sage: Frankfurt scenarios

Causal reasons-sensitivity

Filling in the details

Conclusions. 5 Causal sources : Ultimacy arguments

Direct arguments

Manipulation arguments

Conclusions. Conclusion. References

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-884569-3

0-19-180907-1

0-19-106376-2