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Sarah Broadie
(1941 - 2021)

Last affiliation: University of St. Andrews
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St Andrews, FIfe, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
  •  71
    The Ancient Greeks
    In Helen Beebee, Christopher Hitchcock & Peter Menzies (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Causation, Oxford University Press Uk. 2009.
    There are various motives for refining the notion of cause. Aristotle's was an interest in providing the most informative and illuminating method of explaining the central natural phenomena of his universe. A different sort of motive is created by problems of free will and responsibility, of which readers may have been reminded by the reference to indeterminism. The thought that our free and responsible behaviour is caused by factors over which we have no control has often seemed impossible to a…Read more
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    Nicomachean ethics VII. 8-9 (1151b22) : akrasia, enkrateia, and look-alikes
    In Carlo Natali (ed.), Aristotle: Nicomachean ethics, Oxford University Press. 2009.
    Aristotle: Weakness of Will
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    I-‘Actual Instead’
    Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 113 (1pt1): 1-19. 2013.
    It is argued that acceptance of determinism sits badly with the way we use counterfactual conditionals when considering gains and losses in light of how things would have been if such‐and‐such had or had not happened; it is further suggested that one type of indeterminism runs into the same difficulty; also that the difficulty may escape notice through failure to distinguish different uses of counterfactuals.
    Counterfactual Theories of Causation