Causation and Free Will

AvCarolina Sartorio

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

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Carolina Sartorio argues that only the actual causes of our behaviour matter to our freedom. Although this simple view of freedom clashes with most theories of responsibility, including the most prominent 'actual sequence' theories currently on offer, Sartorio argues for its truth. The key, she claims, lies in a correct understanding of the role played by causation in a view of that kind. Causation has some important features that make it a responsibility-grounding relation, and this to the success of the view. Also, when agents act freely, the actual causes are richer than they appear to be at first sight; in particular, they reflect the agents' sensitivity to reasons, where this includes both the existence of actual reasons and the absence of other (counterfactual) reasons. So acting freely requires more causes and quite complex causes, as opposed to fewer causes and simpler causes, and is compatible with those causes being deterministic. The book connects two different debates, the one on causation and the one on the problem of free will, in new and illuminating ways.

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Utgivningsdatum:2019-07-04
Mått:139 x 216 x 11 mm
Vikt:254 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:208
Förlag:OUP OXFORD
ISBN:9780198845690

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Filosofiska discipliner inom Filosofi och religion

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Carolina Sartorio received her BA in Philosophy from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1996, and her PhD in Philosophy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2003. She is currently Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona. Her research focuses on causation, moral responsibility, agency, free will, and other issues at the intersection of metaphysics and moral theory.

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In five densely argued but accessible chapters, Sartorio draws connections between previously isolated debates so obvious in retrospect that it's easy to wonder why they weren't noticed before. The result is an elegant account of free action that avoids many of the problems that have plagued its competitors ... we welcome the new standards of metaphysical rigour that she has brought to the debate. We recommend her book without hesitation, especially to anyone who still doubts that there is much to learn from the metaphysics of causation about the central concepts of ethical and legal theory.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction1: The Grounds of Freedom2: The Underlying Metaphysics: The Fundamentals3: The Underlying Metaphysics: Completing the Picture4: The Right Kind of Cause5: Causal SourcesConclusionReferencesIndex