Books by Randolph (Professor of Philosophy Clarke

Besides acting, we often omit to do or refrain from doing certain things. Omitting and refraining are not simply special cases of action; they require their own distinctive treatment. This book offers the first comprehensive account of these phenomena, addressing questions of metaphysics, agency, and moral responsibility.

Providing a different treatment of the various libertarian theories that do not appeal to agent causation, the author talks about his own theory of causation. He defends a type of event-causal view from popular objections concerning rationality and diminished control, exploring the extent to which event-causal accounts can secure the things.