Carolina Sartorio is a contemporary analytic philosopher specializing in causation, free will, and moral responsibility. She is best known for her causal theory of free will, which argues that what matters for freedom is the causal history of an action, not whether that history is deterministic. Her work demonstrates that debates about free will are deeply entangled with both metaphysical questions about causation and ethical questions about responsibility.
Authored 'Causation and Free Will' (Oxford University Press, 2016), a systematic defense of causalist compatibilism
Developed a counterfactual-causal account of free will grounded in the structure of agency rather than the presence or absence of determinism
Argued that free will debates are inextricably linked to both metaphysics and normative ethics
Advanced the analysis of omissions and their role in causal and moral responsibility attributions
Contributed influential papers on the relationship between reasons-responsiveness and causal theories of action
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