ABSTRACT
Identi cationist views trace the capacity for freedom of the will to the differentiation in the agent’s psychology such that the agent can fully identify with some of his desires, or more broadly, motivating attitudes, to make them deeply his own and internal. This approach to understanding freedom of the will was rst put forth by Harry Frankfurt (1971), and in this original version, Frankfurt coupled it with his well-known “hierarchy of desire” account of what one’s identi cation with a desire consists in. Since then, many different accounts of what it takes for an agent to be identi ed with a motivating attitude have been proposed, and these presumably would correspond to different versions of an identi cationist view of free will. However, some authors who offer accounts of identi cation do not tie their accounts to an identi cationist view of free will.
