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"Contours of Agency promises to be one of the most important and most widely read anthologies in moral philosophy and the philosophy of mind in many years."
—Gideon Rosen, Department of Philosophy, Princeton University
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The original essays in this book address Harry Frankfurt’s influential writing on personal identity, love, value, moral responsibility, and the freedom and limits of the human will. Many of Frankfurt’s deepest insights come from exploring the self-reflective nature of human agents and the psychic conflicts that self-reflection often produces. His work has informed discussions in metaphysics, metaethics, normative ethics, and action theory. The authors, recognized for their own contributions to the understanding of human agency, defend their original philosophical positions at the same time that they respond to Frankfurt’s. Each essay is followed by a response from Frankfurt, in which he clarifies and elaborates on his views.
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"Contours of Agency promises to be one of the most important and most widely read anthologies in moral philosophy and the philosophy of mind in many years."
—Gideon Rosen, Department of Philosophy, Princeton University
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The original essays in this book address Harry Frankfurt’s influential writing on personal identity, love, value, moral responsibility, and the freedom and limits of the human will. Many of Frankfurt’s deepest insights come from exploring the self-reflective nature of human agents and the psychic conflicts that self-reflection often produces. His work has informed discussions in metaphysics, metaethics, normative ethics, and action theory. The authors, recognized for their own contributions to the understanding of human agency, defend their original philosophical positions at the same time that they respond to Frankfurt’s. Each essay is followed by a response from Frankfurt, in which he clarifies and elaborates on his views.
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Many philosophers have worried that God's existence (understood in a certain way) or causal determinism (the doctrine that nonrelational features of the past, together with the laws of nature, are causally sufficient for all truths about the present and future) would rule out moral responsibility. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
direct argument for incompatibilism, unclarifiable unclarity, volitional struggle, legitimate candidate for satisfaction, volitional necessity, deliberative necessity, actual sequence rules, causal determinism rules, rules out moral responsibility, motivational essences, undefeated reasons, justifying reason for action, volitional necessities, deterministic causal chain, rational endorsement, volitional unity, normative necessity, deliberative conclusion, symbolic respect, moral incapacity, justifying consideration, unwilling addict, volitional attitudes, effective motive, reflective endorsement Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Harry Frankfurt, Cambridge University Press, New York, Rat Man, Oxford University Press, John Martin Fischer, The Faintest Passion, Harvard University Press, Sarah Buss, David Velleman, The Metaphysics of Free Will, Lee Overton, Principle of Alternate Possibilities, Eleonore Stump, Temporally Extended Agency, Walden Two, Bernard Williams, Big Bang, Faces of Intention, Journal of Philosophy, Lord Fawn, Michael Bratman, Peter van Inwagen, Robert Kane, The Possibility of Practical Reason New!
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Many philosophers have worried that God's existence (understood in a certain way) or causal determinism (the doctrine that nonrelational features of the past, together with the laws of nature, are causally sufficient for all truths about the present and future) would rule out moral responsibility. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
direct argument for incompatibilism, unclarifiable unclarity, volitional struggle, legitimate candidate for satisfaction, volitional necessity, deliberative necessity, actual sequence rules, causal determinism rules, rules out moral responsibility, motivational essences, undefeated reasons, justifying reason for action, volitional necessities, deterministic causal chain, rational endorsement, volitional unity, normative necessity, deliberative conclusion, symbolic respect, moral incapacity, justifying consideration, unwilling addict, volitional attitudes, effective motive, reflective endorsement Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Harry Frankfurt, Cambridge University Press, New York, Rat Man, Oxford University Press, John Martin Fischer, The Faintest Passion, Harvard University Press, Sarah Buss, David Velleman, The Metaphysics of Free Will, Lee Overton, Principle of Alternate Possibilities, Eleonore Stump, Temporally Extended Agency, Walden Two, Bernard Williams, Big Bang, Faces of Intention, Journal of Philosophy, Lord Fawn, Michael Bratman, Peter van Inwagen, Robert Kane, The Possibility of Practical Reason New!
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- The Importance of What We Care About: Philosophical Essays by Harry G. Frankfurt on 25 pages
- Necessity, Volition, and Love by Harry G. Frankfurt on 16 pages
- Moral Responsibility by John Martin Fischer on 12 pages
- Free Will (Blackwell Readings in Philosophy) by Robert Kane on 9 pages
- The Significance of Free Will by Robert Kane on 8 pages
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- Values and the Reflective Point of View: On Expressivism, Self-knowledge and Agency by Robert Dunn on 4 pages
- Free Will (Oxford Readings in Philosophy) by Gary Watson on page 190, page 211, and Back Matter
- Self to Self: Selected Essays by J. David Velleman in Front Matter, page 330, and Back Matter
- Self and Subjectivity (Blackwell Readings in Continental Philosophy) by Kim Atkins on page 142, and page 143
- Self and Subjectivity (Blackwell Readings in Continental Philosophy) by Kim Atkins on page 142, and page 143
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