A much-needed investigation of moral and political issues concerning disability

How do we understand procrastination?

This book challenges assumptions that philosophers traditionally have made in setting out the demands of the skeptic who asks, "Why be moral?"

Since the 1970s Gary Watson has published a series of brilliant and highly influential essays on human action, examining such questions as: in what ways are we free and not free, rational and irrational, responsible or not for what we do? Moral philosophers and philosophers of action will welcome this collection, representing one of the most important bodies of work in the field.

Brenda Almond throws down a timely challenge to liberal consensus about personal relationships.