Free agency -- Skepticism about weakness of will -- Disordered appetites : addiction, compulsion, and dependence -- Volitional necessities -- The work of the will -- Free action and free will -- Soft libertarianism and hard compatibilism -- Responsibility and the limits of evil : variations on a strawsonian theme -- Two faces of responsibility -- Reasons and responsibility -- Excusing addiction
Summary
Charting the progress of Watson's thought over three decades, this collection of essays on human action examines such questions as: in what ways are we free and not free, rational and irrational, responsible or not for what we do?
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-365) and index
