Description: Dana Kay Nelkin presents a new account of freedom and moral responsibility, based on the view that one is responsible for an action if and only if one acts with the ability to recognize and act for good reasons. She responds to various challenges to the idea that we are free and responsible, and reaffirms our conception of ourselves as agents.
Review Quotes: "The significant contribution that Nelkin's book represents for the discourse on freedom and responsibility is at the forefront of this discourse, leading the charge on behalf of scholars who are becoming increasingly interested in the significance of rational and moral constraints on freedom and responsibility, as opposed to the physical and intellectual ones that are already entrenched in the literature. This book should be required reading for anyone interested in this subject matter." --Philosophical Psychology