Autonomous Agents

Alfred R. Mele has been the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Humanities Center

• PART I 1: Introduction: Self-Control and Personal Autonomy 2: Better Judgement: Nature and Function 3: Exercising Self-Control: A Motivational Problem 4: Self-Control, Akrasia, and Second-Order Desires 5: Self-Control and Belief 6: Self-Control, Akrasia, and Emotion 7: The Upper Reaches of Self-Control and the Ideally Self-Controlled Person PART II 8: Transition: From Self-Control to Autonomy 9: Psychological Autonomy and Personal History 10: Compatibilist Autonomy and Autonomous Action 11: Problems for Libertarians 12: Incompatibilist Autonomy and Autonomous Action 13: Assessing the Denial of Autonomy References Index

The book is a major contribution to the philosophical literature on action, self-control, freedom, and autonomy, and it should be read by anyone with a serious interest in these issues