Year: 2014
Type: article
Abstract: Theories of autonomy commonly make reference to some form of endorsement: an action is autonomous insofar as the agent has a second‐order desire towards the motivating desire, or takes it to be a reason for action, or is not alienated from it. In this paper I argue that all such theories have difficulty accounting for certain kinds of agents, what I call ‘Woody Allen cases’. In order to make sense of such cases, I suggest, it is necessary to disambiguate two distinct forms of endorsement, both of which contribute to autonomy.
Source: Noûs
DOI: 10.1111/nous.12069
Author: Suzy Killmister
Institution: University of Connecticut
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1525896078