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The contours of control
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Necessarily, if S lacks the ability to exercise (some degree of) control, S is not an agent. If S is not an agent, S cannot act intentionally, responsibly, or rationally, nor can S possess or exercise free will. In spite of the obvious importance of control, however, no general account of control exists. In this paper I reflect on the nature of control itself. I develop accounts of control’s exercise and control’s possession that illuminate what it is for degrees of control—that is, the degre...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Springer Netherlands Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Philosophical Studies Journal website
- Volume:
- 170
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 395-411
- Publication date:
- 2014-01-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1573-0883
- ISSN:
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0031-8116
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- English
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- Local pid:
- ora:9985
- Deposit date:
- 2015-02-10
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- Copyright holder:
- Shepherd, J
- Copyright date:
- 2013
- Notes:
- The Author(s) 2013. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com. Open Access: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits any use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and the source are credited.
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