Personal Autonomy - New Essays on Personal Autonomy and its Role in Contemporary Moral Philosophy

Autonomy has recently become one of the central concepts in contemporary moral philosophy and has generated much debate over its nature and value. This was the first volume to bring together essays that address the theoretical foundations of the concept of autonomy, as well as essays that investigate the relationship between autonomy and moral responsibility, freedom, political philosophy, and medical ethics. Written by some of the most prominent philosophers working in these areas today, this book represents research on the nature and value of autonomy that will be essential reading for a broad swathe of philosophers as well as many psychologists. Contents
Introduction James Stacey Taylor
Part I. Theoretical Approaches to Personal Autonomy: 1. Planning agency, autonomous agency Michael Bratman
2. Autonomy without free will Bernard Berofsky
3. Autonomy and the paradox of self-creation Robert Noggle
4. Agnostic autonomism Alfred Mele
5. Feminist intuitions and the normative substance of autonomy Paul Benson
6. Autonomy and personal integration Laura Waddell Ekstrom
7. Responsibility, applied ethics, and complex autonomy theories Normy Arpaly
Part II. Autonomy, Freedom and Moral Responsibility: 8. Autonomy and free agency Marina A. L. Oshana
9. The relationship between autonomous and morally responsible agency Michael McKenna
10. Alternative possibilities and personal autonomy Ishtiyaque Haji
11. Freedom within reason Susan Wolf
Part III. The Expanding Role of Personal Autonomy: 12. Procedural autonomy and liberal legitimacy John Christman
13. The concept of autonomy in bioethics: an unwarranted fall from grace Thomas May
14. Who deserves autonomy and whose autonomy deserves respect? Tom L. Beauchamp
15. Autonomy, diminished life, and the threshold for use R. G. Frey.

Author/Editor Details
Edited by: James Stacey Taylor, Louisiana State University