Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility is a forum for outstanding new work in an area of vigorous and broad-ranging debate in philosophy and beyond. What is involved in human action? Can philosophy and science illuminate debate about free will? How should we answer questions about responsibility for action?

David Shoemaker is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Murphy Institute at Tulane University. He is the author or co-author of two books and thirty-five articles, many of them having to do with the issues of agency, responsibility, and personal identity.

• Introduction


• 1: Randolph Clarke and Thomas Reed: Free Will and Agential Powers


• 2: Terry Horgan: Injecting the Phenomenology of Agency Into the Free Will Debate


• 3: Sigrún Svavarsdóttir: Coherence of Attitudes, Integration of the Self, and Personal Integrity


• 4: Timothy Schroeder: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Moral Agency


• 5: Carolina Sartorio: Sensitivity to Reasons and Actual Sequences


• 6: John Martin Fischer: Responsibility and the Actual Sequence


• 7: Michael Zimmerman: Moral Luck Reexamined


• 8: Victoria McGeer and Philip Pettit: The Hard Problem of Responsibility


• 9: Bennett Helm: Rationality, Authority, and Bindingness: An Account of Communal Norms


• 10: David Lagnado and Tobias Gerstenberg: A Difference-Making Framework for Intuitive Judgments of Responsibility


• 11: Chandra Sripada: Moral Responsibility, Reasons, and the Self


• Index