David Shoemaker is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Murphy Institute at Tulane University. He is the author or co-author of two books and thirty-five articles, many of them having to do with the issues of agency, responsibility, and personal identity.

• 1. Introduction ; 2. The Possibility of Action as the Impossibility of Certain Forms of Self-Alienation ; 3. The Possibility of Action as the Impossibility of Certain Forms of Self-Alienation ; 4. The Fecundity of Planning Agency ; 5. Can I Only Intend My Own Actions? Intentions and the Own Action Condition ; 6. Regret, Agency, and Error ; 7. Phenomenal Abilities: Incompatibilism and the Experience of Agency ; 8. Reasons-Responsiveness, Agents and Mechanisms ; 9. Responsibility, Naturalism and 'the Morality System' ; 10. The Three-Fold Significance of the Blaming Emotions ; 11. Unwitting Wrongdoers and the Role of Moral Disagreement in Blame ; 12. Partial Desert ; 13. Values, Sanity, and Responsibility ; 14. Fairness and the Architecture of Responsibility ; Index

David Shoemaker's clear and useful introduction is an indispensable guide to this rich volume ... This collection of papers will be a valuable resource for anybody working on theories of agency and moral responsibility. I hope it will also serve as a reminder of the vast range of issues for which a theory of agency matters and of the importance of explanatory breadth as a criterion for theoretical adequacy.