Autonomous Agents: From Self-Control to Autonomy
This book addresses two related topics: self-control and individual autonomy. In approaching these issues, Mele develops a conception of an ideally self-controlled person, and argues that even such a person can fall short of personal autonomy. He then examines what needs to be added to such a person to yield an autonomous agent and develops two overlapping answers: one for compatibilist believers in human autonomy and one for incompatibilists. While remaining neutral between those who hold...
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This book addresses two related topics: self-control and individual autonomy. In approaching these issues, Mele develops a conception of an ideally self-controlled person, and argues that even such a person can fall short of personal autonomy. He then examines what needs to be added to such a person to yield an autonomous agent and develops two overlapping answers: one for compatibilist believers in human autonomy and one for incompatibilists. While remaining neutral between those who hold that autonomy is compatible with determinism and those who deny this, Mele shows that belief that there are autonomous agents is better grounded than belief that there are not.
1Introduction: Self-Control and Personal Autonomy32Better Judgment: Nature and Function153Exercising Self-Control: A Motivational Problem324Self-Control, Akrasia, and Second-Order Desires595Self-Control and Belief866Self-Control, Akrasia, and Emotion1027The Upper Reaches of Self-Control and the Ideally Self-Controlled Person1128Transition: From Self-Control to Autonomy1319Psychological Autonomy and Personal History14410Compatibilist Autonomy and Autonomous Action17711Problems for Libertarians19512Incompatibilist Autonomy and Autonomous Action21113Assessing the Denial of Autonomy237References257Index265
