Velleman (2002), In Sarah Buss & Lee Overton (eds.), The Contours of Agency: Essays on Themes from Harry Frankfurt (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002), pp. 91–123 (the chapter’s own note says 2001); read as reprinted in J. David Velleman, Self to Self: Selected Essays (Cambridge University Press, 2006; reprinted 2007), ch. 14, pp. 330–360 — DOI-10.7551/mitpress/2143.003.0007
Standing in the record
Filed on 2026-09-29 at the owner’s request, as one of the texts assembled to represent Harry Frankfurt’s
account of higher-order volitions, whose 1971 statement is paywalled. published: is the first appearance
(ADR-002).
It was filed Deferred, unread. NOTE-268 is the close reading of 2026-09-29, and it placed the work: Active — worth reading as the sharpest critique of Frankfurt’s late (1990s) identification of autonomy with a volitional essence, and as a careful source for what Frankfurt said in the essays collected in Necessity, Volition, and Love (1999). It is not a survey of the 1971–1987 hierarchical account, which it summarizes in one paragraph and defers to “What Happens When Someone Acts?”; its positive view is stated “briefly” and explicitly deferred to other essays.