Agency and Determinism in A Metaphysics for Freedom

Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 56 (6):571-582 (2013)
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The paper spells out agency in a manner sympathetic to the approach in Helen Steward’s A Metaphysics for Freedom ; argues that agency so construed is compatible with determinism; then argues that this is a costly victory for compatibilism.

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Sarah Broadie
Last affiliation: University of St. Andrews

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Responses.Helen Steward - 2013 - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 56 (6):681-706.

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A Metaphysics for Freedom.Helen Steward - 2012 - Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press.
Freedom to act.Donald Davidson - 1973 - In Ted Honderich (ed.), Essays on Freedom of Action. Boston,: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
On the Soul. Aristotle - 1984 - In Jonathan Barnes (ed.), The Complete Works: The Rev. Oxford Translation. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. pp. 641-692.

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