Libertarian Accounts of Free Will

by Randolph K. Clarke

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019515987X
• ISBN13: 9780195159875
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.6" x 9.5"