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

I've recently used this collection in a graduate seminar on individual autonomy and found it invaluable: together with some older articles from *The Inner Citadel* and Al Mele's book, it formed the backbone of the course. I'd also use the book for an undergraduate elective. The introduction is extremely helpful in charting the development of autonomy theory in analytic moral psychology since Frankfurt and Dworkin's essays some 36 years ago. All the essays are new, though some summarize the views developed by their authors over a larger body of work (e.g. Mele and Wolf). The volume includes a number of essays representating more rationalist and proceduralist ends of the spectrum, as well as coherence theories such as Ekstrom's. The essays on autonomy and free agency are all innovative, though I wish the contributors took the kind of autonomy to be analyzed as the freedom/control condition of responsibility for character. The book also includes four essays looking at applications of personal autonomy concepts to debates in political philosophy and bioethics. For more discussions focused on implications for political philosophy, one can turn to the collection by Christman and Anderson, which forms a great companion to James Taylor's volume.