This book addresses two related topics: self-control and individual autonomy. In approaching these issues, Mele develops a conception of an ideally self-controlled person, and argues that even such a person can fall short of personal autonomy. He then examines what needs to be added to such a person to yield an autonomous agent and develops two overlapping answers: one for compatibilist believers in human autonomy and one for incompatibilists. While remaining neutral between those who hold that autonomy is compatible with determinism and those who deny this, Mele shows that belief that there are autonomous agents is better grounded than belief that there are not.
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"Mele's presentation is philosophically rigorous yet accessible to the non-philosopher. The author demonstrates an impressive grasp of historical and contemporary aspects of the freewill debate and builds upon his earlier work."--Choice
"Mele is a clear and careful writer. His book challenges the reader to reflect seriously on the meaning of self-control and autonomy....Mele has hit his mark in this well-argued, engaging, and thought-provoking book."--The Review of Metaphysics
"...this is a great book. It is rich in arguments, replete with useful examples, and informed by the literature in philosophy and psychology. It is not always easy going, but one's efforts are rewarded. I highly recommend it."--Ethics
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Alfred R. Mele is at Florida State University.
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akratic feeling, strict akratic action, decisive better judgment, compatibilist autonomy, internal indeterminism, proximal desire, compatibilist believers, total motivational base, unsheddable values, positive motivational attitude, agent decisively judges, akratic belief, nonultimate control, one physically possible future, proximal temptation, compatibilist belief, piano argument, decisive best judgment, doxastic principle, genuinely avoidable, akratic intention, agnostic autonomism, nonoccurrent beliefs, incontinent action, agential control Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Reason View, Nicomachean Ethics, Assessing the Denial, King George, S's A-ing, Donald Davidson, Gerald Dworkin, Harry Frankfurt, Robert Kane, Bermuda Triangle, Joel Feinberg New!
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akratic feeling, strict akratic action, decisive better judgment, compatibilist autonomy, internal indeterminism, proximal desire, compatibilist believers, total motivational base, unsheddable values, positive motivational attitude, agent decisively judges, akratic belief, nonultimate control, one physically possible future, proximal temptation, compatibilist belief, piano argument, decisive best judgment, doxastic principle, genuinely avoidable, akratic intention, agnostic autonomism, nonoccurrent beliefs, incontinent action, agential control Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- The Nicomachean Ethics (Oxford World's Classics) by Aristotle on 10 pages
- The Logic of Decision by Richard C. Jeffrey on page 75, and Back Matter
- Social Psychology by Leonard Berkowitz in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Explaining Emotions (Topics in Philosophy; 5) by Amélie Oksenberg Rorty in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Handbook Of Mental Control by Daniel M. Wegner in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Moral Responsibility and Ontology (Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy) by A. van den Beld on page 157, page 161, and page 162
- Free Will (Oxford Readings in Philosophy) by Gary Watson on page 227, and Back Matter
- Responsibility and Control: A Theory of Moral Responsibility (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Law) by John Martin Fischer on page 183, and Back Matter
- Emotional Reason: Deliberation, Motivation, and the Nature of Value (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy) by Bennett W. Helm on page 167, and Back Matter
- Personal Autonomy in Society by Marina Oshana on page 36, and page 144
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