LEADER 02857nam 2200397 450 001 9910404148603321 005 20210315180754.0 010 $a1-78374-877-X 035 $a(OCoLC)1151507612$z(OCoLC)1149316428$z(OCoLC)1149651771$z(OCoLC)1150182291$z(OCoLC)1170908043$z(OCoLC)1175737959 035 $a(CKB)4100000010858943 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6154392 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000010858943 100 $a20200710d2020 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAgency $emoral identity and free will /$fDavid Weissman 210 1$aCambridge, England :$cOpen Book Publishers,$d2020. 215 $a1 online resource (vi, 195 pages) 311 08$aPrint version: 9781783748754 1783748753 311 08$aPrint version: 9781783748761 1783748761 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $a"There is agency in all we do: thinking, doing, or making. We invent a tune, play, or use it to celebrate an occasion. Or we make a conceptual leap and ask more abstract questions about the conditions for agency. They include autonomy and self-appraisal, each contested by arguments immersing us in circumstances we don't control. But can it be true we that have no personal responsibility for all we think and do? Agency: Moral Identity and Free Will proposes that deliberation, choice, and free will emerged within the evolutionary history of animals with a physical advantage: organisms having cell walls or exoskeletons had an internal space within which to protect themselves from external threats or encounters. This defense was both structural and active: such organisms could ignore intrusions or inhibit risky behavior. Their capacities evolved with time: inhibition became the power to deliberate and choose the manner of one's responses. Hence the ability of humans and some other animals to determine their reactions to problematic situations or to information that alters values and choices. This is free will as a material power, not as the conclusion to a conceptual argument. Having it makes us morally responsible for much we do. It prefigures moral identity. Closely argued but plainly written, Agency: Moral Identity and Free Will speaks for autonomy and responsibility when both are eclipsed by ideas that embed us in history or tradition. Our sense of moral choice and freedom is accurate. We are not altogether the creatures of our circumstances."--Publisher's website. 606 $aFree will and determinism 615 0$aFree will and determinism. 676 $a123.5 700 $aWeissman$b David$f1936-$0863071 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910404148603321 996 $aAgency$91926680 997 $aUNINA