ABSTRACT

1. Language and intention 2. Reasons as causes 3. The defeasibility of practical reasoning 4. Kenny’s compatibilism 5. James’s technique 6. The relevance of The Portrait of a Lady 7. Isabel’s self-understanding 8. What happens to Isabel at t 9. Two-way abilities and body language 10. Dennett’s decider-switch 11. Dennett’s robotic self-controller 12. Necessitarianism in the world of James 13. The final chapter 14. Isabel’s fear 15. Kenny and Freud 16. Isabel’s logic of goodness