Research Catalog

Title

Free will and action explanation : a non-causal, compatibilist account / Scott Sehon.

Author

Sehon, Scott Robert, 1963-

Publication

• Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.
• ©2016

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Details

Description

xii, 239 pages; 24 cm

Summary

Do we have free will and moral responsibility? Is free will compatible with determinism? Scott Sehon argues that we can make progress on these questions by focusing on an underlying issue: the nature of action explanation. Part I of the book proposes and defends a non-causal account of action and agency, according to which reason explanation of human behavior is irreducibly teleological rather than causal. Part II applies the teleological account of action to free will and responsibility, arguing that the free actions-the ones for which we are directly responsible. It is then argued that this non-causal account of action undermines the appeal of incompatibilist arguments, arguments attempting to show that free will is not compatible with determinism.0Beyond this, Sehon argues that the non-causal compatibilist account works well in practice: it is in accord with our clear intuitions about cases, and it both explains and provides guidance in the cases where our intuitions are murkier.

Subject

• Free will and determinism
• Explanation

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JFE 16-9471

ISBN

• 9780198758495
• 0198758499

OCLC

951844617

Author

Sehon, Scott Robert, 1963- author.

Title

Free will and action explanation : a non-causal, compatibilist account / Scott Sehon.

Publisher

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Copyright Date

©2016

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 16-9471