Autonomous Agents: From Self-Control to AutonomyOxford University Press, 3. aug. 1995 - 288 sider This book addresses two related topics: self-control and individual autonomy. In approaching these issues, Mele develops a conception of an ideally self-controlled person, and argues that even such a person can fall short of personal autonomy. He then examines what needs to be added to such a person to yield an autonomous agent and develops two overlapping answers: one for compatibilist believers in human autonomy and one for incompatibilists. While remaining neutral between those who hold that autonomy is compatible with determinism and those who deny this, Mele shows that belief that there are autonomous agents is better grounded than belief that there are not. |
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| 3 | |
Nature and Function | 15 |
A Motivational Problem | 32 |
SelfControl Akrasia and SecondOrder Desires | 59 |
SelfControl and Belief | 86 |
SelfControl Akrasia and Emotion | 102 |
The Upper Reaches of SelfControl and the Ideally | 112 |
PART II | 122 |
From SelfControl to Autonomy | 131 |
Psychological Autonomy and Personal History | 144 |
Compatibilist Autonomy and Autonomous Action | 177 |
Problems for Libertarians | 195 |
Incompatibilist Autonomy and Autonomous Action | 211 |
Assessing the Denial of Autonomy | 237 |
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