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 the 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: Vida Yao: Strong-Willed Akrasia


• 2: Kyle Fruh: Practical Necessity and Moral Heroism


• 3: Facundo Alonso: Intending, Settling, and Relying


• 4: Abraham Sesshu Roth: Entitlement to Reasons for Action


• 5: Paul Russell: Free Will Pessimism


• 6: Derk Pereboom: Responsibility, Regret, and Protest


• 7: Gunnar Björnsson: Explaining Away Epistemic Skepticism About Culpability


• 8: Sara Bernstein: Causal Proportions and Moral Responsibility


• 9: David Brink: The Path to Completion


• 10: Julia Driver: Wronging, Blame, and Forgiveness


• 11: Manuel R. Vargas: Implicit Bias, Responsibility, and Moral Ecology


• 12: George Tsai: Respect and the Efficacy of Blame