Contours of agency : essays on themes from Harry Frankfurt /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Buss, Sarah, Overton, Lee
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2002.
©2002
Series:Bradford book.
Subjects:
Frankfurt, Harry G., > 1929- > Congresses.
Frankfurt, Harry G., > 1929-
Frankfurt, Harry G.
Act (Philosophy) > Congresses.
Agent (Philosophy) > Congresses.
Action (Philosophie) > Congrès.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > Modern.
Act (Philosophy)
Agent (Philosophy)
Filosofische aspecten.
Vrije wil.
Verantwoordelijkheid.
Handelen.
PHILOSOPHY/General
Conference papers and proceedings
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Frankfurt-style compatibilism / John Martin Fischer
  • 2. Control and causal determinism / Eleonore Stump
  • 3. Hierarchy, circularity, and double reduction / Michael E. Bratman
  • 4. Identification and identity / J. David Velleman
  • 5. Volitional necessities / Gary Watson
  • 6. Reasons and passions / T.M. Scanlon
  • 7. Frankfurt on identification: ambiguities of activity in mental life / Richard Moran
  • 8. The true, the good, and the lovable: Frankfurt's avoidance of objectivity / Sisam Wolf
  • 9. Bootstrapping / Barbara Herman
  • 10. Love's authority / Jonathan Lear
  • 11. On Frankfurt's explanation of respect for people / Joseph Raz
  • 12. Deeper into bullshit / G.A. Cohen
  • Bibliography of Harry Frankfurt's work.

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