Autonomous Agents
From Self-Control to Autonomy
Mele, Alfred R. Professor of Philosophy, Davidson College
Print publication date: 2001 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-515043-8







doi:10.1093/0195150430.003.0010

Alfred R. Mele
Abstract: Defends a collection of sufficient conditions for compatibilist autonomy. The conditions include ideal self-control, mental health, the absence of compelled and coercively produced motivational states, the absence of a certain kind of deception, and the agent's being a reliable deliberator. It is shown how various incompatibilist objections featuring manipulation or mind control can be overcome.

Keywords: autonomy, coercion, compatibilism, compulsion, deception, deliberation, manipulation, mental health, self-control,

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