This analysis challenges existing conceptions of abilities as a modal tie between motivations and actions, highlighting issues with inabilities and compulsions.
The idea that abilities should be understood as a modal tie between one's motivational states and one's actions is at the core of the most prominent views of abilities. I develop a novel challenge against such views of ability arguing that all these accounts cannot properly account for inabilities and compulsions.
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