THE HEART OF LIBERTARIANISM: FUNDAMENTALITY AND THE WILL. Issue 1 (2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Franklin, Christopher Evan
• Is Part Of: Social philosophy and policy. Volume 36:Issue 1(2019)
• Page Start: 72
• Page End: 92
• Publication Date: 2019
• Subjects: free will, -- moral responsibility, -- the will, -- causal theory of action, -- identification theories, -- contrastive explanations, -- rationality; Social policy -- Periodicals; Social sciences -- Philosophy -- Periodicals; 303.01
• DOI: 10.1017/S0265052519000256
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0265-0525

Abstract

Abstract: It is often claimed that libertarianism offers an unattractive conception of free will and moral responsibility because it renders free agency inexplicable and irrational. This essay aims, first, to show that the soundness of these objections turns on more basic disagreements concerning the ideals of free agency and, second, to develop and motivate a truly libertarian conception of the ideals of free agency. The central contention of the essay is that the heart of libertarians' ideal of free agency is the ideal of agential fundamentality.