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:10.1093/0195150430.003.0011

Alfred R. Mele
Abstract: Identifies the main problems facing libertarians – incompatibilists who believe that there are free, autonomous, morally responsible agents. The main problems revolve around luck and control. Libertarians need to explain how the same actions can be both free and explicable and how indeterminism contributes to freedom, autonomy, and moral responsibility. It is shown that although the so-called “Mind argument” is not a problem for libertarians, a variant of it is, and Robert Kane's libertarianism is criticized.

Keywords: autonomy, control, freedom, incompatibilism, indeterminism, Robert Kane, libertarianism, luck, Mind argument, moral responsibility,

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