Randolph Clarke is a contemporary analytic philosopher at Florida State University whose work centers on action theory, free will, and moral responsibility. He is best known for developing and critically examining agent-causal accounts of libertarian free will, arguing that genuine freedom may require a distinctive kind of causation by the agent as a substance. His research explores the deep interconnections between metaphysical questions about causation and agency and normative questions about responsibility and ethics.
Developed a sophisticated agent-causal account of libertarian free will
Authored Libertarian Accounts of Free Will (2003), a landmark critical survey of the field
Argued that free will debates are irreducibly both metaphysical and ethical in character
Contributed to action theory through analysis of trying, intentional action, and omissions
Examined the limits and prospects of compatibilist and incompatibilist theories of moral responsibility
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