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Jun 2002
ISBN 0262025132
381 pp.
1 illus.
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The Contours of Agency
Sarah Buss and Lee Overton
The original essays in this book address Harry Frankfurt’s influential writing on personal identity, love, value, moral responsibility, and the freedom and limits of the human will. Many of Frankfurt’s deepest insights come from exploring the self-reflective nature of human agents and the psychic conflicts that self-reflection often produces. His work has informed discussions in metaphysics, metaethics, normative ethics, and action theory.<br /> <br /> The authors, recognized for their own contributions to the understanding of human agency, defend their original philosophical positions at the same time that they respond to Frankfurt’s. Each essay is followed by a response from Frankfurt, in which he clarifies and elaborates on his views.
Table of Contents
 Acknowledgments
 Contributors
 Introduction
1 Frankfurt-Style Compatibilism
by John Martin Fischer
2 Control and Causal Determinism
by Eleonore Stump
3 Hierarchy, Circularity, and Double Reduction
by Michael E. Bratman
4 Identification and Identity
by J. David Velleman
5 Volitional Necessities
by Gary Watson
6 Reasons and Passions
by T. M. Scanlon
7 Frankfurt on Identification: Ambiguities of Activity in Mental Life
by Richard Moran
8 The True, the Good, and the Lovable: Frankfurt's Avoidance of Objectivity
by Sisam Wolf
9 Bootstrapping
by Barbara Herman
10 Love's Authority
by Jonathan Lear
11 On Frankfurt's Explanation of Respect for People
by Joseph Raz
12 Deeper into Bullshit
by G. A. Cohen
 Bibliography of Harry Franfurt's Work
 References
 Index
 
 


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