Autonomous Action: Self-Determination in the Passive Mode *

Over the years, many people have given me helpful feedback on this “albatross article.” I would like to thank Stephen Darwall, Klya Ebbels-Duggan, Pamela Hieronymi, Maggie Little, Elijah Millgram, Henry Richardson, Connie Rosati, Angela Smith, Chandra Sripada, Jonathan Vogel, and Susan Wolf, and two anonymous referees, several anonymous editors of this journal, and audiences at Union College, Amherst College, University of Wisconsin, University of Wisconsin Colleges, University of Tuebingen, Amherst College, University of Virginia, University of Utah, Stanford University, the University of Iowa, and Dartmouth University. I am especially grateful to Talbot Brewer and Catherine Campbell for their advice and support during the last stages of the editing process.