Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Agency and the will
- 2 Scepticism about second-order agency
- 3 Decision-making and freedom
- 4 The Psychologising conception of freedom
- 5 Decision rationality and action rationality
- 6 Decision-making and Teleology
- 7 The Regress argument
- 8 In defence of the Action model
- 9 The special-purpose agency of the will
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
9 - The special-purpose agency of the will
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 August 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Agency and the will
- 2 Scepticism about second-order agency
- 3 Decision-making and freedom
- 4 The Psychologising conception of freedom
- 5 Decision rationality and action rationality
- 6 Decision-making and Teleology
- 7 The Regress argument
- 8 In defence of the Action model
- 9 The special-purpose agency of the will
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
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- The Psychology of Freedom , pp. 247 - 268Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1996