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Causation and Free Will (Paperback)
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Causation and Free Will (Paperback)
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Carolina Sartorio argues that only the actual causes of our
behaviour matter to our freedom. Although this simple view of
freedom clashes with most theories of responsibility, including the
most prominent 'actual sequence' theories currently on offer,
Sartorio argues for its truth. The key, she claims, lies in a
correct understanding of the role played by causation in a view of
that kind. Causation has some important features that make it a
responsibility-grounding relation, and this to the success of the
view. Also, when agents act freely, the actual causes are richer
than they appear to be at first sight; in particular, they reflect
the agents' sensitivity to reasons, where this includes both the
existence of actual reasons and the absence of other
(counterfactual) reasons. So acting freely requires more causes and
quite complex causes, as opposed to fewer causes and simpler
causes, and is compatible with those causes being deterministic.
The book connects two different debates, the one on causation and
the one on the problem of free will, in new and illuminating ways.
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