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?

• 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

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.