Free will and the dialectic of selfhood: Can one make sense of a traditional free will requiring ultimate responsibility?

Ideas Y Valores 58 (141):25-43 (2009)
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For four decades, I have been developing a distinctive view of free will according to which agents are required to be ultimately responsible for the creation or formation of their own wills (characters and purposes). The aim of this paper is to explain how a free will of this traditional kind -which..

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