Agency and Answerability: Selected Essays

by Gary Watson

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780191569234
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	07/15/2004
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	467 KB

About the Author

University of California, Riverside

Table of Contents

	Introduction	1
Part I	Freedom, Will, and Agency
1.	Free Agency	13
2.	Skepticism about Weakness of Will	33
3.	Disordered Appetites: Addiction, Compulsion, and Dependence	59
4.	Volitional Necessities	88
5.	The Work of the Will	123
Part II	Agency and Necessity
6.	Free Action and Free Will	161
7.	Soft Libertarianism and Hard Compatibilism	197
Part III	Responsibility and Answerability
8.	Responsibility and the Limits of Evil: Variations on a Strawsonian Theme	219
9.	Two Faces of Responsibility	260
10.	Reasons and Responsibility	289
11.	Excusing Addiction	318
	Bibliography	351
	Index	367