Necessary/Sufficient Conditions for "S acts freely"

by JLS
for the GC

Richard Orville Warner (b. 1946, PhD 1976 UC/Berkeley), who edited Grice's "Aspects of reason" has this early book on "Freedom" (1987) -- just one chapter is on freedom properly where he gives sufficient and necessary conditions for the analysis.

As I read from

http://www.jstor.org/pss/2185361

or
http://www.jstor.org/pss/2107867

"S is able to act freely iff S is able to act self-consciously on a suitable
range of desires to realize expansive self-concepts for their own sake."

A student of Grice at UC/Berkeley (PhD 1976) Warner has written "Happiness, enjoyment, and freedom: an essay in moral philosophy" (Cornell University Press, 1987).

On being interviewed by S. R. Chapman for her "Grice: philosopher and linguist", Warner recollected on his interactions with Grice on topics related to 'freedom' and 'value':

"Richard Warner has commented that their [i.e. Grice's and Warner's] discussions in preparation for the third Carus lecture were concerned almost exclusively with freedom as a source of value, and that he himself encouraged Grice to pursue this line of enquiry rather than that of creature construction as being the more interesting and productive (Richard Warner, personal communication)" (Chapman, p. 175).

The point about the necessary/sufficient clauses reminds one of analytic approaches to knowledge (Chisholm) or action (Aune) and it would be good to review other nec/suff approaches to 'free' -- even 'free will'. Etc.

Refs.:

Doyle, Grice -- "I-Phi".
Etc.