The Contours of Agency
Subtitle: Essays on Themes from Harry Frankfurt
Contributors: Sarah Buss (Editor); Lee Overton (Editor)
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: June 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 381
ISBN-13: 9780262025133
Subjects: Topics in philosophy; Western philosophy, from c 1900 -; Philosophy Of Action; Philosophy; Cognitive Psychology; History & Surveys - Modern; Psychology & Psychiatry / Cognitive Psychology; Metaphysics; 1929-; Act (Philosophy); Agent (Philosophy); Congresses; Frankfurt, Harry G.,
First sentence: Many philosophers have worried that God's existence (understood in a certain way) or causal determinism (the doctrine that nonrelational features of the past, together with the laws of nature, are causally sufficient for all truths about the present and future) would rule out moral responsibility.