...Matthew Mandelkern; Ginger Schultheis; David Boylan This essay proposes a new theory of agentive modals : ability modals and their duals, compulsion modals. After criticizing existing approaches—the existential quantificational analysis, the universal quantificational analysis, and the conditional...

... and compulsion? Intuitively, the compulsive agent cannot 132 BOOK REVIEWS resist the desire on which she acts, while the akratic agent can—but chooses not to. This contrast matters to their respective culpability. Smith’s strategy...

..., and physiological symptoms indicating that the individual continues use of the substance despite significant sub- stance-related problems. There is a pattern of repeated self-administration that usually results in tolerance, withdrawal, and compulsive drug-taking behavior If drug addiction is a matter...

.... If the argument from silence thus does not even have silence on its side, Weiss has a stronger argument when she rightly points to “the pervasiveness of compulsion language ( anankazein and its cognates) in Rep. 7” (107). The prisoners in the Cave are compelled to turn around, are compelled to leave the Cave...

... often presented as a counterexample to OIC involves psychological compulsion. Kleptomaniacs are morally required not to steal what they steal, even though, because they are in the grip of their kleptomania when they steal, they cannot refrain from doing so.12 Proponents of OIC are not persuaded...

... Aristotle’s conception of law is its “status as an achievement of practical rationality” applied in political contexts (8), but it needn’t be apprehended as rational by the citizens, which explains why it is often characterized as necessitating force and compulsion (14). Chapter 1 thus lays out these two...

.... Voluntary action is action not done due to ignorance or compulsion. Although defined by excluding causes, Hyman claims that the concept of voluntary action is at base ethical , rather than physical, concerned with praise, blame, justification, and excuse. I have little to say about this discussion except...

... with Aristotle's views on compulsion, coercion, and culpable ignorance (chapters 4–6). I will conclude by noting some striking features of his treatment of Aristotle's views on force, pain, and involuntariness (chapters 3 and 7). On the theory that Echeñique attributes to Aristotle, only the actions of reason...

... of alien voices, inserted thoughts, obsessive-compulsive thoughts and feelings, and other cases of unusual experience often associated with psy- chopathology, including brief discussion of multiple personality disorder. They survey some of the main empirical explanations of the phenomenology, set out...

... by commonsense morality and contradicted by the deontic impartiality of consequentialism—even indirect consequentialism. As we shall see, this point helps explain the peremptoriness of Mill’s antipaternalism. First, though, consider Mill’s analogous view of rightness and compulsion. The concepts...

..., the withdrawal of our assistance is not a coercive threat. Gandhi's concern with this question, though, arises in attempting to distinguish the compelling power of moral truth from compulsion rooted in force or coercion. This is a different motivation for the concern with noncoercion than what motivates Nozick's...

... compulsively attempting to discern one another's thoughts. As socially intelligent agents, we also often attempt to shape others' discernments of our own thoughts. Communication is a special case of the latter, wherein one intentionally triggers and guides an audience's attempt to read one's mind, in part...

...-compulsive thoughts and feelings, and other cases of unusual experience often associated with psy- chopathology, including brief discussion of multiple personality disorder. They survey some of the main empirical explanations of the phenomenology, set out the shortcomings of these theories, and end...

... are not apt targets of blame. When we withhold blame from the person who suffers delusions that she is being ordered to kill her children by the devil or the person who experiences strong internal compulsions from her kleptomania, we do not start with the idea that it is unfair. Instead, we withhold blame...

... of someone who is dedicated to collecting lint may be meaningless on this criterion, if she's acting under some inner compulsion, but if she herself endorses it, our intuitions of meaninglessness reflect only our inability to take her perspective (42). Another important consequence of Calhoun's focus...

... them by reason, but by compulsion and fear.”1 This shows, Bobonich claims (243), that it must be possible to persuade the part responsible for appetites by rational argument, and hence that appe- tite must be able to form a view of what is best for itself, “taking more than one consideration...

... and opportunities to do so. He simply decided not to. As far as we know, his decision was not subject to any constraint or compulsion, either physical or psychological, but was rather the product of his own deliberations. So what reason is there for thinking that Themistocles could not have ordered the fleet...

... brushing their teeth for the rest of the afternoon. They would be like obsessive-compulsives who would be prone to developing topics of obses- sion and compulsion from dwelling on them in thought. These creatures are possible, if less well adapted to a world like ours than we ourselves...

... capacities) and situational control (which, when lacking, is what excuses some cases of compulsion, constraint, coercion, and duress). See Brink and Nelkin 2013, 292 – 303 . 16. We studied attributions of blameworthiness for both Susan Wolf's (1987) famous JoJo case and a case of a racist...

...?” Philosophical Review 107 : 261 -88. Boghossian, Paul, and Christopher Peacocke, eds. 2000 . New Essays on the A Priori . New York: Oxford University Press. Brewer, Bill. 1995 . “Mental Causation: Compulsion by Reason.” Supplement to the Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 69 : 237 -53...