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DENNETT ON FREEDOM
Author(s) -
Mele Alfred R.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
metaphilosophy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.475
H-Index - 35
eISSN - 1467-9973
pISSN - 0026-1068
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9973.2005.00380.x
Subject(s) - autonomy , epistemology , compatibilism , focus (optics) , philosophy , moral responsibility , free will , incompatibilism , law and economics , sociology , law , political science , physics , optics
In his Freedom Evolves (2003) Daniel Dennett criticizes a view I defend in Autonomous Agents (1995) about the importance of agents' histories for autonomy, freedom, and moral responsibility and defends a competing view. Our disagreement on this issue is the major focus of this article. Additional topics are manipulation, avoidance, and avoidability.