Because She Wanted To

The Journal of Ethics 14 (1):27-35 (2010)
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Carl Ginet has advanced an account of action explanation on which actions can be entirely uncaused and action explanations need not cite causal factors. Several objections have been raised against this view, and Ginet has recently defended the account. Here it is argued that Ginet’s defense fails to come to grips with the chief problems faced by his view.

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Libertarian Accounts of Free Will.Randolph Clarke - 2003 - New York, US: Oxford University Press USA.
Motivation and agency.Alfred R. Mele - 2003 - New York: Oxford University Press.

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