This comprehensive study offers a balanced assessment of libertarian accounts of free will. Bringing to bear recent work on action, causation, and causal explanation, Clarke defends a type of event-causal view from popular objections concerning rationality and diminished control. He subtly explores the extent to which event-causal accounts can secure the things for the sake of which we value free will, judging their success here to be limited. Clarke then sets out a highly original agent-causal account, one that integrates agent causation and nondeterministic event causation. He defends this view from a number of objections but argues that we should find the substance causation required by any agent-causal account to be impossible. Clarke concludes that if a broad thesis of incompatibilism is correct--one on which both free will and moral responsibility are incompatible with determinism--then no libertarian account is entirely adequate.
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