Contours of Agency: Essays on Themes from Harry Frankfurt

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Sarah Buss, Lee Overton
MIT Press, 2002 - 361 páginas

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.

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.

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FrankfurtStyle Compatibilism
1
Control and Causal Determinism
33
Reply to Eleonore Stump
61
Reply to Michael E Bratman
86
Volitional Necessities
129
Reasons and Passions
165
Ambiguities of Activity in Mental
189
Frankfurts Avoidance
227
Bootstrapping
253
Loves Authority
279
On Frankfurts Explanation of Respect for People
299
Deeper into Bullshit
321
Reply to G A Cohen
340
References
349
Index
357
Derechos de autor

Reply to Susan Wolf
245

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Sarah Buss is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan. Lee Overton is Visiting Assistant Professor at Wake Forest University.

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