Alfred Mele

Alfred Remen Mele ( May 22nd 1951) is an American philosopher.

He is William H. and Lucyle T. Werkmeister Professor of Philosophy at Florida State University. His research interests are action theory, philosophy of mind, metaphysics, and philosophy of antiquity. For the free will he has developed his own position, which he calls " Agnostic Autonomism ".

Autonomy and free will

Mele holds free will than autonomy and believes that people can have this. He developed this two concepts of autonomy - a kompatibilistisches that also works in a deterministic world view, and a "modest libertarisches ," based on an indeterministic worldview. Mele argues that so far did not have to decide between compatibilism and Inkompatiblismus in to affirm autonomy and can therefore proposes an agnostic attitude.

In "Effective Intentions: The Power of Conscious Will" (2009) he analyzes its support from empirical findings from neuroscience arguments against the free will with the final Conclusion that this is threatened by any of the available evidence.

In " Free Will and Luck " (2006) he defended his conception of free will against the relevant theoretical arguments.

Works

Monographs

• Effective Intentions: The Power of Conscious Will. Oxford University Press ( OUP ), New York 2009 ISBN 978-0-19-538426-0
• Free Will and Luck. OUP 2008 ISBN 978-0-19-537439-1
• Motivation and Agency. OUP 2008 ISBN 978-0-19-518952-0
• Self- Deception Unmasked. Princeton University Press, Princeton 2001 ISBN 978-0-691-05745-3
• Autonomous Agents: From Self -Control to Autonomy. OUP 1995 ISBN 978-0-19-509454-1
• Springs of Action: Understanding Intentional Behavior. OUP 1992 ISBN 978-0-19-507114-6
• Irrationality: An Essay on akrasia, self- Deception, and Self -Control. OUP 1987 ISBN 978-0-19-508001-8

Editorship

• Free Will and Consciousness: How Might They Work? (edited with Roy Baumeister and Kathleen Vohs ). OUP 2010 ISBN 978-0-19-538976-0