Randolph Clarke examines free will in the context of determinism on the one hand, and the notion that this choice may in fact be random and arbitrary on the other. In the first half of the book, he provides a careful, 'conceptual' assessment of the various libertarian theories that do not appeal to agent causation, and contends that they fail to provide an adequate account of the control required by free will. The second half is a development of his own theory of causation, where he suggests that a satisfactory account of this type of control is possible and necessary, constituting a significant advance in our understanding of free will and the moral responsibility that follows from it.
ibertarian Accounts of Free Will offers a careful, often insightful examination of the prospects for an adequate naturalist libertarian incompatibilism; the book examines, that is, theories of freedom under which free action is possible should determinism be false and should the world be as the natural sciences tell us it is. It is an excellent book that anyone interested in this topic should read.
Randolph Clarke, Michael McKenna, Angela Smith, Angela M. Smith, Florida State University) Clarke, Randolph (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, University of Arizona) McKenna, Michael (Professor and Keith Lehrer Chair of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy and the Center for the Philosophy of Freedom, Professor and Keith Lehrer Chair of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy and the Center for the Philosophy of Freedom, Washington and Lee University) Smith, Angela M. (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Michael Mckenna, Angela M Smith
Randolph Clarke, Michael McKenna, Angela M. Smith, Florida State University) Clarke, Randolph (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, University of Arizona) McKenna, Michael (Professor and Keith Lehrer Chair of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy and the Center for the Philosophy of Freedom, Professor and Keith Lehrer Chair of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy and the Center for the Philosophy of Freedom, Washington and Lee University) Smith, Angela M. (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Michael Mckenna, Angela M Smith
Randolph Clarke, Michael McKenna, Angela Smith, Angela M. Smith, Florida State University) Clarke, Randolph (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, University of Arizona) McKenna, Michael (Professor and Keith Lehrer Chair of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy and the Center for the Philosophy of Freedom, Professor and Keith Lehrer Chair of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy and the Center for the Philosophy of Freedom, Washington and Lee University) Smith, Angela M. (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Michael Mckenna, Angela M Smith
Randolph Clarke, Michael McKenna, Angela M. Smith, Florida State University) Clarke, Randolph (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, University of Arizona) McKenna, Michael (Professor and Keith Lehrer Chair of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy and the Center for the Philosophy of Freedom, Professor and Keith Lehrer Chair of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy and the Center for the Philosophy of Freedom, Washington and Lee University) Smith, Angela M. (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Michael Mckenna, Angela M Smith