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James - a young and talented private detective – has come to office not long ago. Yet, he has discovered every single case and always found the hidden trace.This time he is to investigate the case of the stolen relic. James will have to match all the contradicting facts, figure out the true motive, and the burglar’s personality.You will help James find out the truth by solving numerous puzzles, discover step by step all the twists of the intriguing plot to finally disclose the ancient legend secret.

This book develops an original theory of agentive modality: the kind of modality that is distinctive to agents. The central thesis is that the idea of an option should be taken as primitive, and that other agentive notions – such as ability, skill, and free will – should be understood in terms of options. The main contributions of this book are twofold. First, it resolves many of the outstanding questions in the metaphysics and semantics of agentive modality. In doing so, it develops original accounts of topics that have been central to philosophy since Aristotle. It also contributes to a lively contemporary literature on these topics. Second, it articulates an austere and uncompromising form of compatibilism about free will, termed “simple compatibilism.” Simple compatibilism is so-called because it rejects both the reductive theses endorsed by traditional compatibilists and the sophisticated proposals of many contemporary compatibilists. Instead, it turns precisely on insisting that options are analytically simple. Arguments for incompatibilism are shown to rest on auxiliary principles that should, in light of the book’s general account of options, be rejected.

"It is not very surprising that it was no less true in antiquity than it is today that adult human beings are held to be responsible for most of their actions. Indeed, virtually all cultures in all historical periods seem to have had some conception of human agency which, in the absence of certain responsibility-defeating conditions, entails such responsibility. Few philosophers have had the temerity to maintain that this entailment is trivial because such responsibility-defeating conditions are always present. Another not very surprising fact is that ancient thinkers tended to ascribe integrality to ""what is"" (to on). That is, they typically regarded ""what is"" as a cosmos or whole with distinguishable parts that fit together in some coherent or cohesive manner, rather than either as a ""unity"" with no parts or as a collection containing members (ta onta or ""things that are"") standing in no ""natural"" relations to one another. 1 The philoso­ phical problem of determinism and responsibility may, I think, best be characterized as follows: it is the problem of preserving the phenomenon of human agency (which would seem to require a certain separateness of individual human beings from the rest of the cosmos) when one sets about the philosophical or scientific task of explaining the integrality of ""what is"" by means of the development of a theory of causation or explanation ( concepts that came to be lumped together by the Greeks under the term ""aitia"") ."

Drawing on a range of theoretical perspectives and engaging with new empirical evidence from around the world, this collection examines how privilege, agency and affect are linked, and where possibilities for social change might lie.