A01=Laura Ekstrom
academic ethics textbook
advanced free will theory
Agent Causal Account
Agent Causal Theory
Agent's Moral Responsibility
alternative possibilities
argument
ascriptions
Author_Laura Ekstrom
Category=QDTJ
causal
Causal Determinism
Causally Necessitated
Compatibilist Argument
Conditional Analysis
Counterfactual Intervener
Counterfactual Power
determinism
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
event causation
Fischer's Account
frankfurt
Frankfurt Type Cases
Frankfurt Type Examples
Free Agents
Freedom Required
Hierarchical Accounts
incompatibilist
Incompatibilist Account
Incompatibilist Arguments
indeterminism in philosophy
Inference Rule
inwagen
Laura Waddell Ekstrom
metaphysics of agency
moral
Moral Responsibility
Moral Responsibility Ascriptions
Normal Causal Process
Peggy Sue
philosophy of action
Reasons Responsive Mechanism
responsibility
van
Van Inwagen
Van Inwagen Argument
Product details
- ISBN 9780813390932
- Weight: 381g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 12 Jan 2000
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In this comprehensive new study of human free agency, Laura Waddell Ekstrom critically surveys contemporary philosophical literature and provides a novel account of the conditions for free action. Ekstrom argues that incompatibilism concerning free will and causal determinism is true and thus the right account of the nature of free action must be indeterminist in nature. She examines a variety of libertarian approaches, ultimately defending an account relying on indeterministic causation among events and appealing to agent causation only in a reducible sense. Written in an engaging style and incorporating recent scholarship, this study is critical reading for scholars and students interested in the topics of motivation, causation, responsibility, and freedom. In broadly covering the important positions of others along with its exposition of the author's own view, Free Will provides both a significant scholarly contribution and a valuable text for courses in metaphysics and action theory.
Laura Waddell Ekstrom is associate professor of philosophy at The College of William and Mary.
