Alfred R. Mele (mele-a)

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Beebee, Helen and Mele, Alfred R. 2002. “Humean Compatibilism.” Mind 111(442): 201–224, doi:10.1093/mind/111.442.201.
Haggard, Patrick, Mele, Alfred R., O’Connor, Timothy and Vohs, Kathleen D. 2014. “Appendix: Free Will Lexicon.” in Surrounding Free Will. Philosophy, Psychology, Neuroscience, edited by Alfred R. Mele, pp. 319–326. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199333950.001.0001.
Heil, John and Mele, Alfred R. 1991. “Mental Causes.” American Philosophical Quarterly 28: 61–71.
Heil, John and Mele, Alfred R., eds. 1993. Mental Causation. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Mele, Alfred R. 1979. “On ‘Happiness and the Good Life’ .” The Southwestern Journal of Philosophy 10(2): 181–187.
Mele, Alfred R. 1981. “Choice and Virtue in the Nicomachean Ethics.” Journal of the History of Philosophy 19(4): 405–423.
Mele, Alfred R. 1984a. “Aristotle on the Roles of Reason in Motivation and Justification.” Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 66(2): 124–147.
Mele, Alfred R. 1984b. “Aristotle on the Proximate Efficient Cause of Action.” Canadian Journal of Philosophy 14(suppl. 10): 133–156.
Mele, Alfred R. 1984c. “Aristotle’s Wish.” Journal of the History of Philosophy 22(2): 139–156.
Mele, Alfred R. 1985a. “How to Represent Aristotelian Deliberation Syllogistically.” The New Scholasticism 59(4): 484–492.
Mele, Alfred R. 1985b. “Aristotle on Akrasia, Eudaimonia, and the Psychology of Action.” History of Philosophy Quarterly 2(4): 375–393.
Mele, Alfred R. 1987. Irrationality: An Essay on Akrasia, Self-Deception and Self-Control. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Mele, Alfred R. 1992. Springs of Action: Understanding Intentional Behavior. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Mele, Alfred R. 1995a. Autonomous Agents: From Self-Control to Autonomy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/0195150430.001.0001.
Mele, Alfred R. 1995b. “Motivation: Essentially Motivation-Constituting Attitudes.” The Philosophical Review 104(3): 387–423.
Mele, Alfred R. 1996a. “Internalist Moral Cognitivism and Listlessness.” Ethics 106: 727–753.
Mele, Alfred R. 1996b. “Soft Libertarianism and Frankfurt-Style Scenarios.” Philosophical Topics 24(2): 123–141.
Mele, Alfred R. 1997a. “Agency and Mental Action.” in Philosophical Perspectives 11: Mind, Causation, and World, edited by James E. Tomberlin, pp. 231–249. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
Mele, Alfred R. 1997b. “Strength of Motivation and Being in Control – Learning from Libet.” American Philosophical Quarterly 34: 319–332.
Mele, Alfred R. 1997c. “Passive Action.” in Contemporary Action Theory. Volume 1: Individual Action, edited by Ghita Holmström-HIntikka and Raimo Tuomela, pp. 135–144. Synthese Library n. 266. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Mele, Alfred R. 1998a. “Noninstrumental Rationalizing.” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 70: 236–250.
Mele, Alfred R. 1998b. “Two Paradoxes of Self-Deception.” in Self-Deception and Paradoxes of Rationality, edited by Jean-Pierre Dupuy, pp. 37–58. Stanford, California: CSLI Publications.
Mele, Alfred R. 1999a. “Ultimate Responsibility and Dumb Luck.” Social Philosophy and Policy 16: 274–293.
Mele, Alfred R. 1999b. “Kane, Luck, and the Significance of Free Will.” Philosophical Explorations: An International Journal for the Philosophy of Mind and Action 2(2): 96–104.
Mele, Alfred R. 2000a. “Goal-Directed Action: Teleological Explanations, Causal Theories, and Deviance.” in Philosophical Perspectives 14: Action and Freedom, edited by James E. Tomberlin, pp. 267–277. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
Mele, Alfred R. 2000b. “Reactive Attitudes, Reactivity, and Omissions [on Fischer and Ravizza (1998)].” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 61(2): 447–452.
Mele, Alfred R. 2001. Self-Deception Unmasked. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
Mele, Alfred R. 2002a. “Akratics and Addicts.” American Philosophical Quarterly 39(2): 153–167.
Mele, Alfred R. 2002b. “Autonomy, Self-Control, and Weakness of Will.” in The Oxford Handbook of Free Will, edited by Robert H. Kane, pp. 529–549. Oxford Handbooks. New York: Oxford University Press. Second edition: Kane (2011), doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195178548.001.0001.
Mele, Alfred R. 2003a. Motivation and Agency. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/019515617X.001.0001.
Mele, Alfred R. 2003b. “Agents’ Abilities.” Noûs 37(3): 447–470, doi:10.1111/1468-0068.00446.
Mele, Alfred R. 2003c. “Emotions and Desire in Self-Deception.” in Philosophy and the Emotions, edited by Anthony Hatzimoysis, pp. 163–180. Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement n. 52. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, doi:10.1017/cbo9780511550270.
Mele, Alfred R. 2003d. “Philosophy of Action.” in Donald Davidson, edited by Kirk A. Ludwig, pp. 64–84. Contemporary Philosophy in Focus. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Mele, Alfred R. 2003e. “Intending and Trying: Tuomela vs. Bratman at the Video Arcade.” in Realism in Action. Essays in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences, edited by Matti Sintonen, Petri Ylikoski, and Kaarlo Miller, pp. 129–136. Synthese Library n. 321. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Mele, Alfred R. 2004a. “Can Libertarians Make Promises?” in Agency and Action, edited by John Hyman and Helen Steward, pp. 217–242. Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement n. 55. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Mele, Alfred R. 2004b. “Motivated Irrationality.” in The Oxford Handbook of Rationality, edited by Alfred R. Mele and Piers Rawling, pp. 240–256. Oxford Handbooks. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195145397.001.0001.
Mele, Alfred R. 2004c. “Outcomes of Internal Conflicts in the Sphere of Akrasia and Self-Control.” in Practical Conflicts: New Philosophical Essays, edited by Peter Baumann and Monika Betzler, pp. 262–278. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Mele, Alfred R. 2004d. “Velleman on Action and Agency [on Velleman (2000)].” Philosophical Studies 121(3): 249–261.
Mele, Alfred R. 2004e. “The Illusion of Conscious Will and the Causation of Intentional Actions.” Philosophical Topics 32(1–2): 193–213.
Mele, Alfred R. 2005a. “Decisions, Intentions, and Free Will.” in Midwest Studies in Philosophy 29: Free Will and Moral Responsibility, edited by Peter A. French and Howard K. Wettstein, pp. 146–162. Boston, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishers.
Mele, Alfred R. 2005b. “Action.” in The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy, edited by Frank Jackson and Michael A. Smith, pp. 334–357. Oxford Handbooks. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199234769.001.0001.
Mele, Alfred R. 2005c. “Dennett on Freedom [on Dennett (2003)].” Metaphilosophy 36(4): 414–426.
Mele, Alfred R. 2005d. “Précis of Mele (2003a).” Philosophical Studies 123(3): 243–247.
Mele, Alfred R. 2005e. “Motivation and Agency: Replies [to Davis (2005), Ginet (2005), Roth (2005)].” Philosophical Studies 123(3): 295–311.
Mele, Alfred R. 2005f. “Agnostic Autonomism Revisited.” in Personal Autonomy. New Essays on Personal Autonomy and Its Role in Contemporary Moral Philosophy, edited by James Stacey Taylor, pp. 109–123. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Mele, Alfred R. 2006a. Free Will and Luck. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/0195305043.001.0001.
Mele, Alfred R. 2006b. “Self-Deception and Delusions.” European Journal of Analytic Philosophy 2(1): 109–124.
Mele, Alfred R. 2006c. “Practical Mistakes and Intentional Actions.” American Philosophical Quarterly 43(3): 249–260.
Mele, Alfred R. 2006d. “Free Will: Theories, Analysis, and Data.” in Does Consciousness Cause Behavior? An Investigation of the Nature of Volition, edited by Susan Pockett, William P. Banks, and Shaun Gallagher, pp. 187–206. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
Mele, Alfred R. 2007a. “Self-Deception and Three Psychiatric Delusions.” in Rationality and the Good. Critical Essays on the Ethics and Epistemology of Robert Audi, edited by Mark Timmons, John Greco, and Alfred R. Mele, pp. 163–175. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195311952.001.0001.
Mele, Alfred R. 2007b. “Persisting Intentions.” Noûs 41(4): 735–757.
Mele, Alfred R. 2007c. “Précis of Mele (2006a).” Philosophical Explorations: An International Journal for the Philosophy of Mind and Action 10(2): 153–155.
Mele, Alfred R. 2007d. “Free Will and Luck: Reply to Critics [of Mele (2006a)].” Philosophical Explorations: An International Journal for the Philosophy of Mind and Action 10(2): 195–210.
Mele, Alfred R. 2007e. “Decisions, Intentions, Urges, and Free Will: Why Libet Has Not Shown What He Says He Has.” in Causation and Explanation, edited by Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O’Rourke, and Harry S. Silverstein, pp. 241–264. Topics in Contemporary Philosophy n. 3. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, doi:10.7551/mitpress/1753.001.0001.
Mele, Alfred R. 2008. “Recent Work on Free Will and Science.” American Philosophical Quarterly 45(2): 107–130.
Mele, Alfred R. 2009a. Effective Intentions. The Power of Conscious Will. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195384260.001.0001.
Mele, Alfred R. 2009b. “Mental Action: A Case Study.” in Mental Actions, edited by Lucy O’Brien and Matthew Soteriou, pp. 17–37. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199225989.001.0001.
Mele, Alfred R. 2009c. “Intention and Intentional Action.” in The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Mind, edited by Brian P. McLaughlin, Ansgar Beckermann, and Sven Walter, pp. 691–711. Oxford Handbooks. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199262618.001.0001.
Mele, Alfred R. 2009d. “Moral Responsibility and Agents’ Histories.” Philosophical Studies 142(2): 161–181.
Mele, Alfred R. 2009e. “Causation, Action, and Free Will.” in The Oxford Handbook of Causation, edited by Helen Beebee, Christopher R. Hitchcock, and Peter Menzies, pp. 554–574. Oxford Handbooks. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199279739.001.0001.
Mele, Alfred R. 2009f. “Self-Deception and Delusions.” in Delusion and Self-Deception. Affective and Motivational Influences on Belief Formation, edited by Tim[othy John] Bayne and Jordi Fernández, pp. 55–70. London: Routledge.
Mele, Alfred R. 2009g. “Action and Mind.” in The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Psychology, edited by John Symons and Paco Calvo, pp. 609–620. Routledge Philosophy Companions. London: Routledge.
Mele, Alfred R. 2010a. “Weakness of Will and Akrasia.” Philosophical Studies 150(3): 391–404.
Mele, Alfred R. 2010b. “Intentionality.” in A Companion to the Philosophy of Action, edited by Timothy O’Connor and Constantine Sandis, pp. 108–113. Blackwell Companions to Philosophy. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, doi:10.1002/9781444323528.
Mele, Alfred R. 2010c. “Motivational Strength.” in A Companion to the Philosophy of Action, edited by Timothy O’Connor and Constantine Sandis, pp. 259–266. Blackwell Companions to Philosophy. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, doi:10.1002/9781444323528.
Mele, Alfred R. 2010d. “Moral Responsibility for Actions: Epistemic and Freedom Conditions.” Philosophical Explorations: An International Journal for the Philosophy of Mind and Action 13(2): 101–111.
Mele, Alfred R. 2010e. “Approaching Self-Deception: How Robert Audi and I Part Company.” Consciousness and Cognition 19: 745–750.
Mele, Alfred R. 2010f. “Conscious Intentions.” in Action, Ethics, and Responsibility, edited by Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O’Rourke, and Harry S. Silverstein, pp. 85–108. Topics in Contemporary Philosophy n. 6. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, doi:10.7551/mitpress/9780262014731.001.0001.
Mele, Alfred R. 2010g. “Teleological Explanations of Actions: Anticausalism versus Causalism.” in Causing Human Actions: New Perspectives on the Causal Theory of Action, edited by Jesús H. Aguilar and Andrei A. Buckareff, pp. 183–198. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, doi:10.7551/mitpress/9780262014564.001.0001.
Mele, Alfred R. 2011a. “Moral Psychology.” in The Continuum Companion to Ethics, edited by Christian B. Miller, pp. 98–118. London: Continuum International Publishing Group. Republished as Miller (2015).
Mele, Alfred R. 2011b. “Self-Control in Action.” in The Oxford Handbook of the Self, edited by Shaun Gallagher, pp. 465–486. Oxford Handbooks. New York: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199548019.001.0001.
Mele, Alfred R. 2011c. “Free Will and Science.” in The Oxford Handbook of Free Will, edited by Robert H. Kane, 2nd ed., pp. 499–514. Oxford Handbooks. New York: Oxford University Press. First edition: Kane (2002), doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195399691.001.0001.
Mele, Alfred R. 2012a. Backsliding. Understanding Weakness of Will. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199896134.001.0001.
Mele, Alfred R. 2012b. “Another Scientific Threat to Free Will?” The Monist 95(3): 422–440.
Mele, Alfred R. 2012c. “Intentional, Unintentional, or Neither? Middle Ground in Theory and Practice.” American Philosophical Quarterly 49(4): 369–379.
Mele, Alfred R. 2012d. “Folk Conceptions of Intentional Action.” in Philosophical Issues 22: Action Theory, edited by Ernest Sosa, Enrique Villanueva, and Berit Brogaard, pp. 281–297. Malden, Massachusetts: Wiley-Blackwell.
Mele, Alfred R. 2013a. “Moral Responsibility and the Continuation Problem.” Philosophical Studies 162(2): 237–255.
Mele, Alfred R. 2013b. “Vetoing and Consciousness.” in Decomposing the Will, edited by Andy Clark, Julian Kiverstein, and Tillmann Vierkant, pp. 73–86. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199746996.001.0001.
Mele, Alfred R. 2013c. “Free Will and Neuroscience.” Philosophic Exchange 43(3).
Mele, Alfred R., ed. 2014a. Surrounding Free Will. Philosophy, Psychology, Neuroscience. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199333950.001.0001.
Mele, Alfred R. 2014b. Free. Why Science Hasn’t Disproved Free Will. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Mele, Alfred R. 2014c. “Luck and Free Will.” Metaphilosophy 45(4–5): 543–557. Reprinted in Pritchard and Whittington (2015, 93–106).
Mele, Alfred R. 2014d. “The Single Phenomenon View and Experimental Philosophy.” in Rational and Social Agency. The Philosophy of Michael Bratman, edited by Manuel R. Vargas and Gideon Yaffe, pp. 38–55. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199794515.001.0001.
Mele, Alfred R. 2014e. “Self-Control, Motivational Strength, and Exposure Therapy.” Philosophical Studies 170(2): 359–375.
Mele, Alfred R. 2014f. “Introduction.” in Surrounding Free Will. Philosophy, Psychology, Neuroscience, edited by Alfred R. Mele, pp. 1–3. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199333950.001.0001.
Mele, Alfred R. 2015. “Luck, Control, and Free Will: Answering Berofsky.” The Journal of Philosophy 112(7): 337–355.
Mele, Alfred R. 2017a. Aspects of Agency. Decisions, Abilities, Explanations, and Free Will. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190659974.001.0001.
Mele, Alfred R. 2017b. “Two Libertarian Theories: or Why Event-causal Libertarians should Prefer My Daring Libertarian View to Robert Kane’s View.” in Philosophy of Action, edited by Anthony O’Hear, pp. 49–68. Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement n. 80. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Mele, Alfred R. 2017c. “Direct Control.” Philosophical Studies 174(2): 275–290.
Mele, Alfred R. 2017d. “Character in Action.” in Questions of Character, edited by Iskra Fileva, pp. 169–181. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199357703.001.0001.
Mele, Alfred R. 2018. “Exercising Self-Control: An Apparent Problem Resolved.” in Self-Control, Decision Theory, and Rationality, edited by José-Luis Bermúdez, pp. 204–217. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, doi:10.1017/9781108329170.
Mele, Alfred R. 2019a. Manipulated Agents. A Window to Moral Responsibility. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oso/9780190927967.001.0001.
Mele, Alfred R. 2019b. “Free Will and Moral Responsibility: Manipulation, Luck, and Agents’ Histories.” in Midwest Studies in Philosophy 43: Moral Luck, edited by Peter A. French, Howard K. Wettstein, and Andrew C. Khoury, pp. 75–92. Malden, Massachusetts: Wiley-Blackwell, doi:10.1111/misp.12105.
Mele, Alfred R. 2019c. “Causalism: On Action Explanation and Causal Deviance.” in Explanation in Action Theory and Historiography. Causal and Teleological Approaches, edited by Gunnar Schumann, pp. 45–58. London: Routledge, doi:10.4324/9780429506048-2.
Mele, Alfred R. 2019d. “Freedom.” in A Companion to Atheism and Philosophy, edited by Graham Oppy, pp. 237–249. Blackwell Companions to Philosophy. Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell, doi:10.1002/9781119119302.
Mele, Alfred R. 2020. Surrounding Self-Control. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oso/9780197500941.001.0001.
Mele, Alfred R. 2022. Free Will: An Opiniated Guide. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oso/9780197574232.001.0001.
Mele, Alfred R. and Cushman, Fiery A. 2007. “Intentional Action, Folk Judgments, and Stories: Sorting Things Out.” in Midwest Studies in Philosophy 31: Philosophy and the Empirical, edited by Peter A. French and Howard K. Wettstein, pp. 184–201. Boston, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishers.
Mele, Alfred R. and Rawling, Piers, eds. 2004a. The Oxford Handbook of Rationality. Oxford Handbooks. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195145397.001.0001.
Mele, Alfred R. and Rawling, Piers. 2004b. “Introduction: Aspects of Rationality.” in The Oxford Handbook of Rationality, edited by Alfred R. Mele and Piers Rawling, pp. 3–13. Oxford Handbooks. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195145397.001.0001.
Timmons, Mark, Greco, John and Mele, Alfred R., eds. 2007. Rationality and the Good. Critical Essays on the Ethics and Epistemology of Robert Audi. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195311952.001.0001.

Further References

Davis, Wayne A. 2005. “The Antecedent Motivation Theory [on Mele (2003a)].” Philosophical Studies 123(3): 249–260.
Dennett, Daniel C. 2003. Freedom Evolves. New York: Viking Press / Penguin Books.
Fischer, John Martin and Ravizza, Mark. 1998. Responsibility and Control: A Theory of Moral Responsibility. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, doi:10.1017/cbo9780511814594.
Ginet, Carl. 2005. “Comments on Mele (2003a).” Philosophical Studies 123(3): 261–272.
Pritchard, Duncan and Whittington, Lee John, eds. 2015. The Philosophy of Luck. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, doi:10.1002/9781119030614.
Roth, Abraham Sesshu. 2005. “The Mysteries of Desire: A Discussion [of Mele (2003a)].” Philosophical Studies 123(3): 273–293.
Velleman, David J. 2000. The Possibility of Practical Reason. Oxford: Oxford University Press.