Aspects of Agency: Decisions, Abilities, Explanations, and Free Will

by Alfred R. Mele

The libertarian theory of free will combines a negative thesis and a positive thesis. The negative thesis is that free will is incompatible with determinism. The positive thesis is that there are actions that involve exercises of free will---'free actions, ' for short. While remaining neutral on this negative thesis, Aspects of Agency develops a detailed version of the positive thesis that represents paradigmatically free actions as indeterministically...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190659971
• ISBN13: 9780190659974
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Oxford Univ PR
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"