Abstract

Mele questions whether being a self-controlled person is also sufficient for personal autonomy. He constructs an ideally self-controlled person and argues that such a person may lack autonomy in certain ways. The task, then, is to determine what needs to be added to the ideally self-controlled person in order to make him autonomous. Throughout the book, Mele is concerned with responding to objections from both compatibilist and incompatibilist philosophers.