Causation and free will
Carolina Sartorio argues that only the actual causes of our behaviour matter to our freedom. Causation has some important features that make it a responsibility-grounding relation, and actual causes reflect the agents' sensitivity to reasons. Sartorio connects debates on causation and the problem of free will in new and illuminating ways.
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- Full title :Causation and free will / Carolina Sartorio.
Summary
Carolina Sartorio argues that only the actual causes of our behaviour matter to our freedom. Causation has some important features that make it a responsibility-grounding relation, and actual causes reflect the agents' sensitivity to reasons. Sartorio connects debates on causation and the problem of free will in new and illuminating ways.
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- Publication Date:2016.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:Oxford, UK
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2016.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780191809071, 0191809071, 9780191063763, 0191063762
- oclc:ocn945736100
- LC Classification:BD591
- Dewey Decimal:122
Table of Contents
Cover; Causation and Free Will; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1: The Grounds of Freedom; 1. The Question about Grounding; 2. The Alternative-possibilities Answer; 3. The Actual-sequences Answer; 3.1 The positive grounding claim; 3.1.1 The role of causal facts; 3.1.2 The claim that responsibility is grounded in causation; 3.2 The negative grounding claim; 3.2.1 The supervenience claim; 3.2.2 The scope of the supervenience claim; 4. Conclusions; 2: The Underlying Metaphysics: The Fundamentals; PART I: The Metaphysics behind the Positive Grounding Claim; 1. Omissions.
2. Overdetermination3. Conclusions; PART II: The Metaphysics behind the Negative Grounding Claim; 1. The Threat to the Negative Grounding Claim; 1.1 Apparent counterexamples to supervenience; 1.2 Fischer and Ravizzaś view; 2. In Defense of Supervenience; 2.1 The extrinsicness of causation; 2.2 The argument from derivative responsibility; 2.3 Responsibility for outcomes; 3. Conclusions; 3: The Underlying Metaphysics: Completing the Picture; 1. Luck; 2. Difference-making; 3. Intransitivity; 4. Conclusions; 4: The Right Kind of Cause.
PART I: The Appeal to Reasons-Sensitivity: A Puzzle and Some Fail…
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